1. Person Address City Publication State Puppy Dog Publisher Conference Animal An ontology creates a structure within which we describe the world.

2. Paea 1045 Boyer WallaWalla Not- gadgets WA Tupa LNCS ODBASE’09 Paea, Tupa The world as we choose to see it fits within that structure.

3. Data annotation, as we define it, is therefore the process of fitting real world entities into the ontology structure. Data annotation, as we define it, is therefore the process of fitting real world entities into the ontology structure. Paea Tupa WA Walla Not-gadgets LNCS ODBASE’09

4. The power of ontologies is that the structure informs the data and vice-versa. That is, you can infer more data than you may have started with by extrapolating on the interplay between data and structure. The power of ontologies is that the structure informs the data and vice-versa. That is, you can infer more data than you may have started with by extrapolating on the interplay between data and structure. Paea Tupa WA Walla Not-gadgets LNCS ODBASE’09 Tupa Paea