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Some ontologies represent domain knowledge and organise knowledge into a specific structure e.g. hierarchy, graph, etc. Other ontologies represent formal vocabularies with well-defined axioms that allow further deductions or inferences.
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Forbes, D.E., Wongthongtham, P., Terblanche, C., Pakdeetrakulwong, U. (2018). Ontology Engineering. In: Ontology Engineering Applications in Healthcare and Workforce Management Systems. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 123. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65012-8_3
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