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The IFF Foundation for Ontological Knowledge Organization.
- Source :
- Cataloging & Classification Quarterly; 2003, Vol. 37 Issue 1/2, p187-203, 17p, 7 Diagrams
- Publication Year :
- 2003
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Abstract
- This paper discusses an axiomatic approach for the semantic integration of ontologies, an approach that extends to first order logic, a previous approach1 based on information flow. This axiomatic approach is represented in the Information Flow Framework (IFF), a metalevel framework for organizing the information that appears in digital libraries, distributed databases and ontologies. The paper argues that the semantic integration of ontologies is the two-step process of alignment and unification. Ontological alignment consists of the sharing of common terminology and semantics through a mediating ontology. Ontological unification, concentrated in a virtual ontology of community connections, is fusion of the alignment diagram of participant community ontologies--the quotient of the sum of the participant portals modulo the ontological alignment structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01639374
- Volume :
- 37
- Issue :
- 1/2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Cataloging & Classification Quarterly
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 12613532
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1300/J104v37n01_13