A Survey of Ontology Usage in Academic Sciences: Informal Ontologies

Please also see SurveyFormalOntologies.

Biology / Biomedicine

Phylogenies

“The genesis and evolution of the phylum, tribe, or species; ancestral or racial evolution of an animal or plant type, or of particular organs or other components of a plant or an animal.” - Oxford English Dictionary

Phylogeny Links:

• http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/evo101/IIBPhylogenies.shtml - Evolution 101 - Understanding phylogenies

Phylogeny Papers:

Phylogeny Software:

Chemistry

Library Systems

Dewey Decimal

Dewey Decimal Links:

Dewey Decimal Papers:

Dewey Decimal Software:

Library of Congress

Library of Congress Links:

• http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html - List of major classification topics
• http://www.loc.gov/marc/ - MARC standards: machine-readable bibliographic / curation information used in the US and Canada, including the "MARC to Dublin Core Crosswalk": http://www.loc.gov/marc/marc2dc.html. Also includes links to UKMARC: http://www.bl.uk/services/bibliographic/marc/marcman.html, used in the UK.
• http://www.loc.gov/cds/downloads/FRBR.PDF - library pamphlet explain some useful acronyms

Library of Congress Papers:

Library of Congress Software:

Generic Ontology Links

• http://ontology.buffalo.edu/

-- ElizabethAuden - 16 May 2005