Ontology List

What it is

Ontology List is an archived, categorized directory of ontology and vocabulary names, with short descriptions for some entries. The fetched page groups resources by subject rather than defining an ontology or comparing the listed models.

Key concepts

• Categories include friendship and relationships, thesauri and folksonomies, communities, news/blogs/wikis, data sharing and integration, bibliographic and multimedia information, geology, biology/biomedicine, general ontologies, information technology, business, linguistics, medicine, scientific research, and other topics.
• The list spans well-known and specialized resources, including FOAF, VOAF, SKOS, BIBO, Gene Ontology, WordNet, SUMO, Dublin Core, BFO, GoodRelations, and the Event Ontology.
• Descriptions focus on intended scope, such as people and relationships, citations, datasets, geographic features, research communities, biological entities, or business processes.

How you’d use it

Browse the domain headings to generate candidate vocabularies for a modeling task, then use each candidate’s own material for evaluation. The one-line summaries can help distinguish broad upper ontologies from narrower models for areas such as bibliography, multimedia, biomedicine, or organizations.

LLM angle

none stated

Pitfalls & lessons

This is a Wayback Machine capture from April 2021, and the entries are uneven: many have a one-line explanation while others are only names. Some items are repeated, and the fetched text contains character-encoding artifacts, so it is not a current or normalized registry.

Verdict

A useful historical discovery index with wide topical coverage, but not an authoritative source for a candidate’s present status, specification, or fitness.

Sources consulted

• https://web.archive.org/web/20210413125526/https://info.sice.indiana.edu/~dingying/Teaching/S604/OntologyList.html