Re: Ontology vs. taxonomy

I advice you on this paper by an author belonging to the
excellent English tradition in information science:

Thesauri, taxonomies and ontologies : an etymological note / Alan
Gilchrist = Journal of documentation. vol 59 : 2003. n 1. p 7-18

Abstract: The amount of work to be done in rendering the digital
information space more efficient and effective has attracted a wide
range of disciplines which, in turn, has given rise to a degree of
confusion in the terminology applied to information problems. This
note seeks to shed some light on the three terms thesauri, taxonomies
and ontologies as they are currently being used by, among others,
information scientists, AI practitioners, and those working on the
foundations of the semantic Web. The paper is not a review of the
techniques themselves.

Personally, I tend to think roughly that taxonomies only include
hierarchical relations (A is a kind of B), while ontologies also
include any other kind of relations (A is husband of B, A is
singer of song B, ...).



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