The project IntelLEO aims to explore supportive technologies for learning and knowledge building activities of learners in Intelligent Learning Extended Organisations (IntelLEO).
What the Alliance is about is to try and achieve a uniform data structure that makes it possible to establish, with different levels of certainty, relationships between concepts in a given domain (we start with biomedical). The idea of a single, overarching, monolithic ontology doesn’t fit this model. Instead, several ontologies must co-exist, and yes, if combined, they can yield contradictions.
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