Terms synonymous or similar to "ontology"

TermGlossOccurrencesEvaluation
Business Rule DesignA framework for building multi-level conditional (If..Then...Else) statements with an underlying ontology for connecting the antecedents and the consequents12.0
Classification 12.0
Concept systemSet of concepts and the relations among them14.0
Content Modelsdescribes how content in a CMS is structured and how different types of content can relate to each other13.0
Controlled Terminologyset of terms representing the system of concepts of a particular subject field13.0
controlled vocabulary / thesaurusThe Metathesaurus is a very large, multi-purpose, and multi-lingual vocabulary database that contains information about biomedical and health related concepts, their various names, and the relationships among them.13.0
Controlled vocabulary thesaurusIt consists of sets of terms naming descriptors in a hierarchical structure that permits searching at various levels of specificity15.0
data dictionariesa list of natural language definitions for application specific data12.0
domain modeltypically a UML model of a software application domain12.0
enterprise knowledge basea natural language/ textual description of organizational "knowledge" about specified topics12.0
Entity Relationship DiagramA model of (entity) concpets and relations from which a database schema is developed13.0
Entity Relationship Model/Data ModelA collection of entity types possessing attributes and related by relationships, including subtype/supertype relationships13.0
First Order Logic OntologyA computer interpretable collection of classes, relations, and rules that together provide a theory of what exists for some domain expressed in a version of First Order Logic.15.0
FolksonomyA folksonomy is a user generated taxonomy used to categorize and retrieve Web pages, photographs, Web links and other web content using open ended labels called tags. Typically, folksonomies are Internet-based, but their use may occur in other contexts as well. The process of folksonomic tagging is intended to make a body of information increasingly easier to search, discover, and navigate over time. A well-developed folksonomy is ideally accessible as a shared vocabulary that is both originated by, and familiar to, its primary users. Two widely cited examples of websites using folksonomic tagging are Flickr and del.icio.us, although it has been suggested that Flickr is not a good example of folksonomy43.0
formal ontologyVocabulary of terms together with a set of expressions in a formal logic (with syntax and model theory)15.0
GlossaryA list of terms with agreed natural language definitions arranged in alphabetical order11.0
Hierarchical TaxonomyClassification Scheme - World Bank Topics11.0
Library Classification schemesThe classification scheme is a collection of subject classes13.0
logical theory, upper ontologya logical theory about aspects or domains of the real world25.0
MetadataData that defines and describes other data13.0
Metadata SchemeSet of metadata attributes which are required for all WB content.12.0
MetathesaurusVocabulary database. The term Metathesaurus draws on Webster's Dictionary third definition for the prefix "meta," i.e., "more comprehensive, transcending." In a sense, the Metathesaurus transcends the specific thesauri, vocabularies, and classifications it encompasses.14.0
ModelA set of inter-related documents that describe an IT service or system. Each model consists of two disjoint subsets of documents: genic documents and phenic documents.12.0
Network Taxonomy (sometimes called semantic network or thesaurus)Extended thesaurus structure of deep concepts (not words!!!)13.0
nomenclature 11.0
Object Information Modelrepresents the types of information about members of a class or meta-information about a class itself15.0
OntologyIn both computer science and information science, an ontology is a data model that represents a set of concepts within a domain and the relationships between those concepts. It is used to reason about the objects within that domain.174.5
ontology (computer science)An ontology is a specification of a conceptualization (Tom Gruber/1993)15.0
ontology (philosophy)the study of being or existence11.0
Ontology ModelA model of the ontology.1 
OWL OntologyA collection of formal classes and relationships using the OWL language that are theory of what exists for some domain.15.0
Reference ModelA abstract model capturing the major concepts of a systems and the relationships amongst them14.0
Ring Taxonomy (synonyms)Set of equivalent terms, including predecessors, successors, variant lexical forms, abbreviations, variant spellings, other language forms, etc.11.0
schema (??) 13.0
Semantic data modelA graphic representation of the things of significance to an organization and the relationships among them. The relationships are named so as to represent assertions about the nature of the organization.13.0
Semantic networkThe Semantic Network consists of (1) a set of broad subject categories, or Semantic Types, that provide a consistent categorization of all concepts represented in the UMLS Metathesaurus, and (2) a set of useful and important relationships, or Semantic Relations, that exist between Semantic Types.24.0
tag clouda group of tags of varying sizes, depending on popularity13.0
tag libraryinformal organization of xml tags12.0
TaxonomyTaxonomy, sometimes alpha taxonomy, is the science of describing, categorising and naming organisms, thus giving rise to taxa.52.5
ThesaurusA controlled vocabulary used for information retrieval by providing metadata values for index and classifying resources and browsing collections.33.0
upper ontologyAn upper ontology is limited to concepts that are meta, generic, abstract and philosophical, and therefore are general enough to address (at a high level) a broad range of domain areas. Concepts specific to given domains will not be included; however, this standard will provide a structure and a set of general concepts upon which domain ontologies (e.g. medical, financial, engineering, etc.) could be constructed. [IEEE-SUO/http://suo.ieee.org/]15.0