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As machines and automation can generally assist humanity in physical activities, and even exceed mere human capabilities, so, increasingly, also in tasks of reasoning. A basic component of the latter type of machines is an ontology for defining some particular domain of discourse.

My Questions, relating to my specific domain of interest and expertise:

Are there any automated/computerized ontologies publicly available for the discourse domain of experimental physics (in general) and the thought-experimental foundations of the theory of relativity (in particular); providing (therefore) especially the notions of

  • distinct identifiable "participants", and
  • "coincidence" (such as encounters between two or more recognizable material participants) vs. "non-coincidence"

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Are there any (public) opportunities to contribute to such ontologies and/or to them being established in the first place?

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  • $\begingroup$ Related: physics.stackexchange.com/q/131076/44126 $\endgroup$
    – rob ♦
    Commented Apr 23, 2015 at 18:32
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    $\begingroup$ @rob: "Related: [ PSE/q/131076 {etc.}: Lexical/ontological/semantic knowledge base for physics...]" -- Wow!, that's really sort of related. (Never underestimate a sufficiently diverse bunch of PhysSE contributors ... &). (Well, that guy who (elsewhere) first posted $$\frac{11.86~\text{a}}{2} =\! \approx \!= 5.9~\text{a}$$ had beat me to the punch, too ...) $\endgroup$
    – user12262
    Commented Apr 23, 2015 at 18:51
  • $\begingroup$ It stuck out at me because it's the only other question I've seen here about ontology. If you find several you might create a tag to group them together. $\endgroup$
    – rob ♦
    Commented Apr 23, 2015 at 18:58
  • $\begingroup$ @rob: "It stuck out at me because it's the only other question I've seen here about o." -- In the strictest sense of "Ontology (information science)", apparently. I did the obvious search admittedly only soon after your "standard comment". (I claim and hope this doesn't make this question of mine "duplicate".) "If you find several you might create a tag [...]." -- How many "several"?? (I've created tags even on, at first, singular topics; just so I could spell it out.) $\endgroup$
    – user12262
    Commented Apr 23, 2015 at 19:13
  • $\begingroup$ Tag to your heart's content. PS, no need to quote comment repies. $\endgroup$
    – rob ♦
    Commented Apr 23, 2015 at 21:20

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