Re: Re: Ontology vs. taxonomy

>
> > "IvyGrad91"  <mjbarczak@y...> wrote:
> >
> > Can we please have a discussion thread about 
> > the meaning and application of taxonomies and 
> > ontologies?
> > 
> --- John OGorman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> To paraphrase Mark Twain: "An ontology is a taxonomy
> with a college education."
> 

And to paraphrase OGorman: "A taxonomy is a thesaurus
with a science orientation."

In any case, they are all forms of controlled
vocabulary, an traditional aspect of library science.


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