@inproceedings{03c9ce95dd9e49aaabc6a9f43dece154,
title = "From top-level to domain ontologies: Ecosystem classifications as a case study",
abstract = "This paper shows how to use a top-level ontology to create robust and logically coherent domain ontology in a way that facilitates computational implementation and interoperability. It uses a domain ontology of ecosystem classification and delineation outlined informally Bailey's paper on 'Delineation of Ecoregions' as a running example. Baily's (from an ontological perspective) rather imprecise and ambiguous definitions are made more logically rigorous and precise by (a) restating the informal definitions formally using the top-level terms whose semantics was specified rigorously in a logic-based top-level ontology and (b) by enforcing the clear distinction of types of relations as specified at the top-level and specific relations of a given type as they occur in the ecosystem domain. In this way it becomes possible to formally distinguish a number of relations which logical interrelations are important but which have been confused and been taken to be a single relation before.",
author = "Thomas Bittner",
year = "2007",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-540-74788-8\_5",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783540747864",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "61--77",
booktitle = "Spatial Information Theory - 8th International Conference, COSIT 2007, Proceedings",
address = "Germany",
note = "8th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2007 ; Conference date: 19-09-2007 Through 23-09-2007",
}