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A science ontology version 2

Michael, Silver, Paul and myself have had another go at a science ontology. We’ve tried to take onboard the comments from the previous version – many thanks to those that commented.

Simple ontology to model the scientific process

Second attempt at a science ontology

A few things worth highlighting:

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Michael and I did a bit of domain modelling this afternoon – below is our first attempt at a science domain model. It’s almost certainly wrong but I quite like it and I would love to hear what you think, especially if you are a scientist!

First attempt at a science ontology

To give a bit of context – the idea behind the ontology is to provide a relatively high level model to describe the scientific method so that organisations, such as the BBC, could structure their content (archive footage, news stories etc.) using the model.

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