The purpose of ontology is to achieve inter-operability by providing a common terminology and understanding of a given domain of interest, which in turn allows for the assignment of clear meaning to learning object. Ontologies are used in artificial intelligence, biomedical informatics, library science, chemistry and many other subjects. The purpose of this paper is to make the library professionals alert about the literature published on ontology and applications of ontology.
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