Ontology

Smith, Barry

doi:10.1002/9780470757017.ch11

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“…But rather the goal is the "truth" relative to a conceptualization in order to achieve a certain degree of relevance with respect to the requirements of a context. Our position is very much in line with Smith (2003) who holds that information systems ontologists have abandoned the Ontologist's credo in the traditional philosophical sense and have adopted instead a view of ontology simply as a 'conceptual model' . Constructing one single shared ontology as in the philosophical sense would require a neutral and common framework to be established and supported by standardization organizations.…”

Section: Ontology Based Approachessupporting

confidence: 63%

“…The notion of ontology has been widespread in the field of information systems and data integration. It was recognized that the provision of a common reference ontology as a conceptual view on top of preexisting information sources might provide significant advantages, and the term 'ontology' came to be used by information scientists (Smith 2003). More recently, ontology has gained importance and popularity with the advent of the Semantic Web.…”

Section: Ontology Based Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…According to (Smith, 2003) ontologies (in information science) deal with alternative possible worlds and not with reality itself; worlds which are defined with respect to the requirements of a specific context. This means entities represented in the ontology are only recognized by the context in question and they possess only properties which the context can recognize.…”

Section: Ontology Based Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Section: Ontology Based Approachessupporting

confidence: 63%

Section: Ontology Based Approachesmentioning

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“…Oversimplifying, (an) ontology is a method for rationally understanding (see Poli, 2010), describing, defining, categorising, and making sense of entities (and their relationships) within a particular knowledge system (see Smith, 2004). Ontology is fundamentally a descriptive strategy, which -as hermeneutics -is frequently (albeit unknowingly) employed within aesthetic contexts.…”

Section: Some Theoretical Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards an Ontology of Computational Technologies as Tools for Aesthetic Creation

Hernández-Ramírez¹

2015

CITAR Journal

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Computational technologies have significantly expanded the horizons of aesthetic creation; nonetheless, their wider ontological status as tools remains poorly understood. This limitation hinders our ability to assess their true impact on aesthetic practices and limits our means to establish the relationship between computer generated artefacts and previous forms of 'media'. This paper argues that understanding and categorising the things computational technologies are able to do as aesthetic tools also requires understanding what type of tools they are. Following recent insights from philosophy of information and post-phenomenology, this paper begins by showing computational technologies are no ordinary mediators, but truly 'multi-stable' appliances which are leading us to reformulate our very notions of reality and selfunderstanding. While delivering a fully-fledged ontological model falls outside of its scope, this paper nonetheless suggests that within aesthetic contexts, computational devices may be initially described as information modelling appliances. This characterisation offers an alternative to their increasingly less adequate portrayal as 'media'.

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“…They are often not explicit the underlying taxonomy." [5] This third application may be considered as a…”

Section: Prospect For Ontologies In the Urban Development Domainmentioning

confidence: 99%