Middle Architecture Criteria
<|reference_start|>Middle Architecture Criteria: Mid-level ontologies are used to integrate terminologies and data across disparate domains. There are, however, no clear, defensible criteria for determining whether a given ontology should count as mid-level, because we lack a rigorous characterization of what the middle level of generality is supposed to contain. Attempts to provide such a characterization have failed, we believe, because they have focused on the goal of specifying what is characteristic of those single ontologies that have been advanced as mid-level ontologies. Unfortunately, single ontologies of this sort are generally a mixture of top- and mid-level, and sometimes even of domain-level terms. To gain clarity, we aim to specify the necessary and sufficient conditions for a collection of one or more ontologies to inhabit what we call a mid-level architecture.<|reference_end|>
@article{beverley2024middle,
    title={Middle Architecture Criteria},
    author={John Beverley, Giacomo De Colle, Mark Jensen, Carter Benson, Barry
  Smith},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.17757},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2404.17757},
    primaryClass={cs.AI cs.DB cs.LO}
}