Re: Are there any true good, reusable abstract ontologies?

Hi Matt,

You could use Swoogle to search for one:
http://swoogle.umbc.edu/

-Rinke

sixpence <at> comcast.net wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I've been using protege for modeling OWL-based ontologies for several months.  I like using upper
ontologies as much as possible (reuse, scalability).  However, upper ontologies soon grow too big (SUMO,
etc...).  I was looking for a shallow, simple ontologies for 'person' and 'organization'.  Anyone know of
any lightweight ontologies out there like these?  If not, I'm thinking about creating my own for public consumption.
> 
> FOAF is lightweight but doesn't have much in the way for corporations.  Plus it uses older RDF syntax.  I'd
like to go pure OWL - limit it to OWL DL potentially for inferencing (excludes vCard, too).
> 
> TIA,
> -Matt
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