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Ontology of Astronomical Object Types Use Cases
Version 1.1

IVOA Note 17 January 2010

Interest/Working Group:
http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/IvoaSemantics
Author(s):
L.Cambrésy S. Derriere P. Padovani A. Preite-Martinez A. Richard
Editor(s):
S. Derriere A. Preite-Martinez A. Richard

Abstract

The Semantic Web and ontologies are emerging technologies which enable advanced knowledge management and sharing. Their application to Astronomy can offer new ways of sharing information between astronomers, but also between machines or software components and allow inference engines to perform reasoning on an astronomical knowledge base. This document presents several use-cases exploiting an ontology of astronomical object types. This strongly constrained ontology allows formal reasoning including similarity measurements, concept classification and consistency checking.

Status of this document

This is an IVOA Note expressing suggestions from and opinions of the authors.
It is intended to share best practices, possible approaches, or other perspectives on interoperability with the Virtual Observatory. It should not be referenced or otherwise interpreted as a standard specification.



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