Summary
The three ontologies discussed in this chapter, Good Relations, QUDT, and OBO Foundry ontologies, cover the spectrum from ontologies that include almost no data at all (Good Relations) to ontologies that include very large amounts of richly interconnected data (OBO). They all supply, to varying extents, the basic capabilities of the Semantic Web of sharing information in a coherent way across multiple systems.
Good Relations is the smallest of the ontologies described here. Its main goal in the Semantic Web is to provide a framework in which information can be shared—a vocabulary that different suppliers can use to describe their offerings. The data in Good Relations aren’t in the ontology at all; it is distributed across the Web. OBO ...
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