Ontology with concepts about many domains (transport, environment, engineering, …)

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I am looking for an ontology or a controlled vocabulary which contains concepts about many domains such as transport, environment, engineering.

Is there such a vocabulary available?

I'd recommend that you look at library filing systems. (Universal Decimal Classification, Dewey Decimal System, Library of Congress Subject Headings, etc.) — Joe, Oct 23 '15 at 17:10

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 23 '15 at 19:01

There are several "common" ontologies published for Open Data. Here are some:

Linked Open Vocabulary (LOV): http://lov.okfn.org/dataset/lov/

Linked Open Data (LOD) : http://linkeddata.org/

We (OpenGeoCode) have our own published ontology:

Vocabulary: http://www.opengeocode.org/cude1.2/LinkedCSV-Vocab.php
Specification: http://www.opengeocode.org/cude1.2/csv1.2.php

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 26 '15 at 12:40

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The open directory project DMOZ is probably too shallow for scientific use, but maybe appropriate to get a "average Joe" perspective on concepts visible in such topics as

Science/Environment
Science/Technology/Transportation

Another more extensive, but messier and more involved procedure to look into the structure of Wikipedia categories. Here is an example tree for Environment. Problem: they are chaos.

answered Oct 26 '15 at 12:40

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The hierarchy is interesting, do they have an ontology for describing this hierarchy ? – user1774937 Nov 10 '15 at 13:05

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 01 '18 at 00:34

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You could also take a look at Adam Pease's SUMO (Suggested Upper Merged Ontology) which is quite broad and covers those knowledge domains.

answered Mar 01 '18 at 00:34

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https://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/6277/ontology-with-concepts-about-many-domains-transport-environment-engineering#comment14753_6277 – Stanislav Kralin Mar 01 '18 at 09:44

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