Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information

By M. Bedau. 2003

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The Human Phenotype Ontology (2010, methodology): “In computer science, the word ontology is used with a related meaning to describe a structured, automated representation of the knowledge within a certain domain in fields such as science, government, industry, and healthcare (19).”
Managing uncertainty and vagueness in description logics for the Semantic Web (2008, background): “Informally, an ontology consists of a hierarchical description of important and precisely defined concepts in a particular domain, along with the description of the properties (of the instances) of each concept.”
Controlled vocabularies and semantics in systems biology (2011, methodology): “Making use of ontologies, as one approach of encoding semantics, has gained momentum in life sciences over the last decade (Smith, 2003).”
The Evidence Ontology: Supporting Conclusions & Assertions with Evidence (2017, methodology): “For example, whether a curator makes an annotation after reading about an experimental result in a scientifi c paper or after manually evaluating pairwise sequence alignment results, ECO can express that a manual curation method was used (3,8).”