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ARPA Knowledge Sharing Effort Public Library
Directory for information and software related to the ARPA Knowledge Sharing Effort. Features papers, e-mail lists, ontolingua and software library.
http://www-ksl.stanford.edu/knowledge-sharing/
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Knowledge Interchange Format (KIF)
A DARPA project. KIF is a language designed for use in the interchange of knowledge among disparate computer systems.
http://logic.stanford.edu/kif/kif.html
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Principles of ontology
Mailing list archive. Some basic definitions by John Sowa.
http://www-ksl.stanford.edu/onto-std/mailarchive/0136.html
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Ontologies Come of Age
Paper by Deborah L. McGuinness discussing ontologies and requirements for their effective use on the web. [2002]
http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm/papers/ontologies-come-of-age-mit-press-%28with-citation%29.htm
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What is an Ontology?
Short and long answers from Tom Gruber of Knowledge Systems Lab at Stanford University.
http://www-ksl.stanford.edu/kst/what-is-an-ontology.html
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OWL Ontology Library
A selection of OWL ontologies usable in Protégé.
http://protege.stanford.edu/plugins/owl/owl-library/index.html
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Protégé
A free open-source Java tool providing an extensible architecture for the creation of customized knowledge-based applications. Includes documentation, events and publications.
http://protege.stanford.edu/
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Ontolingua
A distributed collaborative environment to browse, create, edit, modify, and use ontologies. Provided by the Knowledge Systems Laboratory of Stanford University.
http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/software/ontolingua/
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The Chimaera Ontology Environment
A merging and diagnostic ontology environment. It is distributed for external use and has been used in academics and also commercially.
http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/software/chimaera/
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A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology
Introductory paper by Natalya F. Noy and Deborah L. McGuinness, from Stanford University. Provides guidelines and examples using Protégé-2000.
http://protege.stanford.edu/publications/ontology_development/ontology101-noy-mcguinness.html
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