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Active Ontology Management

Q: What is Active Ontology Management?

Active ontology management is a set of processes and tools that maintain, update, and operationalize ontologies as live components in data, application, and knowledge-management systems rather than static reference models. Expanded Explanation 1. Technical Function and Core Characteristics Active ontology management maintains formal representations of concepts, entities, and relationships in machine-readable formats such as Web Ontology Language (OWL) or Resource Description Framework (RDF)

Active ontology management is the ongoing governance and operation of ontologies as live components in enterprise systems, enabling consistent semantics, controlled change management, and interoperability across knowledge graphs, data platforms, metadata tools, and policy or rules-based applications.

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