Cati,
I would say that if your data structure has a hierarchy with at least
three classes (types) and some relations and is represented in a
syntactically valid OWL ontology that can be loaded into one of the ontology
viewers such as Prot�g� or SWOOP, it could be called an 'ontology'. That
does not say anything at all about the quality or usefulness of it. (01)
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> Subject: [ontolog-forum] Ontology vs OWL implementation
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm new in the Ontology world, and maybe it has been already
> discussed, I'm asking me the question if everything implemented in the
> OWL language can be considered an Ontology. I guess that it's not so,
> but it is difficult for me to say when we can say that it is or not.
>
> I'm modelling with OWL some information structure, so OWL is used to
> define the components and relations to these components that compose
> this concrete information structure. Could it be considered an
> Ontology, or only a set of constraints on a data structure?
>
> Thank you. Regards
>
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