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== Work from the 2010 Ontology Summit suggested 8 Core Knowledge Areas with some breakout into units: {nid 2VIQ} ==

1.The basic terminology of ontology (relation of ontology to knowledge representation, conceptual modeling, data modeling, ...) {nid 2VIR}

2.Theoretical foundations {nid 2VIS}

* first-order logic, basics of description logic, modal logic, and second-order logic {nid 2VIT}
* set theory {nid 2VIU}
* basic notions of philosophical ontology (universals and particulars, mereology, essence and identiy, unity and plurality, dependence, change in time...) {nid 2VIV}
* philosophy of language (the use-mention confusion, sense and reference, speech act theory, ...) {nid 2VIW}
* knowledge representation, conceptual modeling, data modeling; metadata {nid 2VIX}

3.Representation languages Part 1: RDF, OWL; Common Logic {nid 2VIY}

4.Building and editing ontologies {nid 2VIZ}

* human aspects (application of classification principles, manual auditing, ...) {nid 2VJ0}
* software tools (Protégé, ...) (2AU6) {nid 2VJ1}
* addressing interoperability problems among ontologies {nid 2VJ2}

5.Ontology evaluation strategies and theories (Ontoclean, ...) {nid 2VJ3}

6.Examples of ontologies, illustrating different methodologies {nid 2VJ4}

* upper-level ontologies (BFO, DOLCE, SUMO, ...) {nid 2VJ5}
* mid-level, domain-spanning ontologies (PSL, ...) {nid 2VJ6}
* domain ontologies (GO, Enterprise Ontology, ...) {nid 2VJ7}

7.Examples of ontology applications (successes and failures) (2AUC) 1.as controlled vocabularies / standards, to achieve coordination among humans {nid 2VJ8}

* .to solve interoperability problems among external data resources {nid 2VJ9}
* reasoning with ontology content {nid 2VJA}
* improve search and retrieval {nid 2VJB}
* Natural language processing {nid 2VJC}
* decision support, situational awareness, information fusion, anomaly detection {nid 2VJD}

8.Ontology and the Web {nid 2VJE}

* general foundations (URIs, XML, etc.) {nid 2VJF}
* Semantic Web initiative {nid 2VJG}