If the preference is for books, I can recommend "Semantic web for the working ontologist: effective modeling for linked data, RDFS, and OWL". https://search.worldcat.org/title/1193030282
If the preference is for papers, two papers from Deborah McGuinness et al, from early 2000s are still my favorites:
> This agreement has a name: an ontology. Ontology is a formal specification of types, the properties they carry, and the relationships they may have. Its unit is the triple, one fact expressed as subject, predicate, object.
Er... nope.
In the limited context of OWL and RDF, that's what an ontology is. It has a much larger meaning outside of that context. As M-W puts it, ontology is "the branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature and relations of being."
Projected into computer science, an ontology is a formal model of concepts in a domain, their properties and relationships, along with axioms or constraints that apply to those concepts.
The "triple" described in the quote is an implementation detail, how a particular formalism (OWL and RDF) chooses to represent a rather pale shadow of what an ontology is conceptually.
If the preference is for books, I can recommend "Semantic web for the working ontologist: effective modeling for linked data, RDFS, and OWL". https://search.worldcat.org/title/1193030282
If the preference is for papers, two papers from Deborah McGuinness et al, from early 2000s are still my favorites:
- "Ontology development 101: A guide to creating your first ontology": https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...
- "Ontologies come of age": https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...
Er... nope.
In the limited context of OWL and RDF, that's what an ontology is. It has a much larger meaning outside of that context. As M-W puts it, ontology is "the branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature and relations of being."
Projected into computer science, an ontology is a formal model of concepts in a domain, their properties and relationships, along with axioms or constraints that apply to those concepts.
The "triple" described in the quote is an implementation detail, how a particular formalism (OWL and RDF) chooses to represent a rather pale shadow of what an ontology is conceptually.