It Is What It Does: The Pragmatics of Ontology

Author: Thomas Gruber
Title: It Is What It Does: The Pragmatics of Ontology
Date: March 26, 2003
Type: Presentation in PDF

Citation: Invited presentation to the meeting of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model committee, Smithsonian Museum, Washington, D.C., March 26, 2003.

File: cidoc-ontology-2003.pdf

External URL: http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr/docs/symposium_presentations/gruber_cidoc-ontology-2003.pdf

Context: CIDOC is a standardization group for museums, and the CIDOC CRM is an international standard ontology for the sharing of cultural knowledge (currently under committee draft at ISO as ISO/CD 21127). The presentation describes the theoretical framework and software engineering methodology for ontology-as-contract in the standards context.

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