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Ontologies
are usually expressed in a logic-based language, so that
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detailed,
accurate, consistent, sound, and meaningful distinctions can
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be
made among the classes, properties, and relations.
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Ontologies
figure prominently in the emerging Semantic Web as a way
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of
representing the semantics of documents and enabling the semantics
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to be
used by web applications and intelligent agents.
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Ontologies
can prove very useful for a community as a way of
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structuring
and defining the meaning of the metadata terms that are
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currently
being collected and standardized.
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Using
ontologies, tomorrow's applications can be "intelligent", in the
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sense
that they can more accurately work at the human conceptual
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level.
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