Ontology is used to organize and construct the concepts and information-pieces in a specific domain in a formally logical way designed for machine processing. It has been one more years since I first touched the Ontology when I was doing my Master project and dissertation. I still found that there are many aspects about the ontology and its applications underlying the popular and critical industries. This paper on the XML.COM enlightened me that there are still many unknown corners to me in the Ontology, which drives me to discove more through daily pracitce. In the mean time, I also felt pressure suddenly pushed on me for my oncoming PhD study in the Ontology Management, because lack of deep understanding of ontology made me upset.
Back to the paper, although it investigated the current ontology tools in the market, it also gave out a clear viewpoints of the ontology which made me remeet the concept of the ontology. I have mentioned the ontology to my peers who are doing the relevant works in the IT industries in China. It is a pity that they seldom know this concept currently. Compared to the situations of 5 years ago, ontology is not developed limitedly in the academical circles. It has entered into the many fields of IT industries, such as web search services, web portals, web services, e-commerce, and other industries, such as health care, intelligence agent. Nearly everyday we will use Google or Yahoo! Do you really know them? They are actually using the ontology-base framework to organize and manage the contents on the web. Directories in the Yahoo! is a good example of structure to show how the ontology to organize the contents on the web.
Surprisingly, In April of this year, Gartner, the market research firm, identified taxonomies/ontologies as one of the leading IT technologies, ranking it third in its list of the top 10 technologies forecast for 2005. That is a great news! There will be more and more applications based on the ontology coming up in the following years!
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