Observing trends in publications related to ontologies and ontology Engineering, they look like most of them, if not all, are application oriented.Even more, when analyzing relatively recent history of this field, one can realize that, for example, during the first decade of the XXI Century, there was an intensive process of looking for new methodologies, and after creation of NeON Methodology, I feel, roughly speaking, nothing more has happened.
Other examples, from the development tools. Several years ago there were several tools competing for the roll of most used editor. Today looks like almost every thing is developed using Protégé. Regarding ontology languages there is a similar "state-of-affairs", even we try to open a debate around that topic last year: https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_are_the_current_trends_in_ontology_languages
What do you think? Hopefully I am wrong...
Dear Rey,
From a philosophical perspective, ontology is about the 'being' of beings, for instance the nature of human being. On the one hand, you can argue that the nature of human being can be observed, as for instance the 'rationality' as distinguishing characteristic of human being can be observed in actual humans rational agency. on the other hand, you can argue that the nature of human being cannot be observed (you don't 'see' rationality) in the sense that you cannot 'test' it like normal chateristics (the tallness of a man is measurable, but the rationality as essential characteristic of humans not (if only because you can also argue that human being is essentially characterized as economic animal). Maybe this answer to your question is too abstract, but I am sure others can add to this first answer.
vincent
You might find the answers you're looking for on this website: http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/
There's also a Contact button on the upper right side.
Additional resources are on Youtube; enter barry smith ontology into the search field.
Karl Pfeifer Thank you, it is a good site, plenty of good foundational related resources.
I agree with your point of view. Most publications in this field are related to development of specific domain ontologies dedicated to be used in some application context.
The problem is that the reuse is stopped by the lack of provenance and good quality documentation of ontologies.
The shift is being made in my opinion towards building linked datasets according to tim berners lee principles. These datasets are knowledge bases (ontologies with rules and instances).
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