1 From Terminologies to Ontologies – Advances in Knowledge Organization Gerhard Budin University of Vienna 2007-07-01 Terminology Summer School DynamOnt Methodology for Dynamic Ontology Creation From Terminologies to Ontologies – Tools of Knowledge Organization • Terminologies = structured (+/-) collections of concepts and terms in a certain language in a specific subject field • Ontologies = formal, explicit (conceptual) models of object ranges in a computational representation • Differences and commonalities • Methods of organizing knowledge (personal and collective levels) • Knowledge organization systems: all structured terminology system: classifications, thesauri, taxonomies, nomenclatures – they can be „ontologized“