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Welcome to The Ontology for Nutritional Studies (ONS) wiki pages!
Here you will find useful information and training to start using, downloading, browsing and even contributing to expanding the ONS ontology. Most of the documentation is summarised and put together from external resources, whom shall go the credits.
An ontology is defined as a formal representation of the knowledge in a certain reality (i.e. a certain domain of knowledge), in a way that different people - and, notably, computers - can understand the concepts it contains and learn about the reality that is being represented. Ontologies consist of defined classes of entities, typically structured within a knowledge hierarchy where concepts are connected by standardised semantic relationships (i.e. "is-a", "part-of") formally specifying knowledge relations such as generalisations of specifications of the reality of interest.
In practice [],
When dealing with an ontology, and ONS is one of a kind, the following common tasks will get you started.
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TASK 1. Browse and lookup ONS concepts online or with a Spreadsheet
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TASK 2. Browsing and making changes to ONS locally
- Basic Protègè usage
- Download and browse ONS on you PC
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TASK 3. Contribute to ONS
- Propose a change via issue tracker (preferred method)
- Propose changes via pull requests (experienced users)