Working Together in Philosophy and Informatics: An Introduction to the Contributions of the Second International Workshop on Philosophy and Informatics (WSPI 2005)

Having people from two sciences come together appears to be a difficult task, especially when one of the sciences has a tradition that can be counted in millennia and where the other one some decades ago simply did not exist. Todays talking about ontologies in informatics (computer science), for ins...

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Published inProfessional Knowledge Management pp. 580 - 585
Main Authors Deussen, Thilo, Roth-Berghofer, Thomas R., Büchel, Gregor, Klein, Bertin
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
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Knowledge Management
Knowledge Management System
Knowledge Representation
Semantic Model
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Summary:Having people from two sciences come together appears to be a difficult task, especially when one of the sciences has a tradition that can be counted in millennia and where the other one some decades ago simply did not exist. Todays talking about ontologies in informatics (computer science), for instance, can easily be misleading. The term is borrowed from philosophy where there is no such thing as a multitude of ontologies, there is only ontology as the subject of existence.
ISBN:9783540304654
3540304657
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/11590019_66