Ontology - Introduction:

The Industrial Application of Ontology: Driven by a foundational ontology

This is the first part of an introduction to a series of tutorials that aim to provide a practical introduction for researchers and practitioners to potential for the use of foundational ontologies in industrial applications, based upon an actual application. These tutorials will be based upon industrial work currently being done using the BORO foundational methodology; an ontology-based systems (and data) re-engineering and modernisation approach. This first part provides an introduction to ontology, particularly foundational ontologies. The second part of the introduction introduces the BORO ontology. The subsequent tutorials will use this introductory tutorial as a basis, they will walk through a number of illustrative examples of how the BORO methodology has been used to re-engineer data in an industrial context.