Ontology Definition and Its Relationship to Knowledge Graphs
Deep Narrative Analysis (DNA) makes extensive use of ontology and knowledge graph technologies. Unfortunately, these topics are not well understood. In fact, there are entire books dedicated to these subjects, as well as multiple 10+ page papers. blog posts and web sites. But those definitions can be complicated and not very meaningful to IT and business people. This post is an attempt to provide simple definitions. An ontology can be specified as: A description of the kinds of things and relationships in a topic area, specified in a formal way, and created by a community of users for an explicit purpose Unpacking the definition, it is important to highlight that: One of the most important goals of an ontology is to communicate the concepts and knowledge (and increase the understanding) of the topic area within the "community of users" This enables sharing and reuse of the knowledge encoded using the ontology The "description" requires understanding and detailing th...