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October 6, 2010
An ontology defines the concepts and terms used to describe and represent an area of knowledge and the relationships among them. A dictionary can be considered a simplistic ontology, and a thesaurus a slightly more rigorous one, but we usually reserve "ontology" for meaning expressed using more formal or structured language. Put another way, an ontology relies on a controlled vocabulary for describing the relationships among concepts and terms.