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Designing Foundational Ontologies

The Object-Centered High-Level Reference Ontology OCHRE as a Case Study

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Foundational ontologies are axiomatic theories about high-level domain-independent categories of the real world. They constitute toolboxes of eminently reusable information modelling primitives for building application ontologies about specific domains. The design of foundational ontologies confronts the conceptual modeller with completely new challenges in respect of their content as well as their formalisation. As a case study, this article outlines the axiomatisation of the Object-Centered High-level REference ontology OCHRE, comparing its basic conceptual modelling choices with those underlying DOLCE, a foundational ontology developed in the Wonderweb project.

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  1. Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science, University of Leipzig, Härtelstrasse 16-18, D–4109, Leipzig

    Luc Schneider

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  1. College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, USA

    Il-Yeol Song

  2. Information Systems Department, Brigham Young Univeristy, 84602, Provo, Utah, USA

    Stephen W. Liddle

  3. School of Computing, National University of Singapore,  

    Tok-Wang Ling

  4. Dept. of EECS, Northwestern Univ.,  

    Peter Scheuermann

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Schneider, L. (2003). Designing Foundational Ontologies. In: Song, IY., Liddle, S.W., Ling, TW., Scheuermann, P. (eds) Conceptual Modeling - ER 2003. ER 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2813. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39648-2_10

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