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#domain-ontology
Three C’s Of Ontology Engineering
Don't bind internal systems to public ontologies
if the Acme Company data architect models his domain using purely public domain ontologies he is enforcing an early and tightly bound contract of his internal systems (APIs and their underlying SPARQL queries) to them. If he models people and relationships using pure FOAF then…
Reusing public ontologies makes RDF interpretable
the use of existing public domain ontologies in one’s own ontology allows us to publish RDF such that external consumers (machines or humans) will already know how to interpret and use the knowledge described therein.