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Ren Pope on Ontologies

The Informed Life

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The Importance of an Ontology

The idea that the paw is a part of the cat is something that I think comes intuitively to a lot of us. People might not be aware that there are formal ways of describing those things, those types of relationships. So much of this is subconscious, that on a day to day basis, you don't even have to think about that. But when you're making very complex systems like an e-commerce website or a very extensive library, the common user may not think of that.

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