Ontomasticon

Ontomasticon is a simple, lightweight ontology and glossary server written in PHP and making use of MariaDB or MySQL.

Etymology

"The term onomastikón (collection of names, from ὄνομα/ónoma, ‘name’) describes learned works that are not arranged alphabetically but juxtapose synonyms and terms relating to the same semantic field." [1]

"An ontology is a way of showing the properties of a subject area and how they are related, by defining a set of concepts and categories that represent the subject." [2]

Installation

Please see the installation page for instructions on installing Ontomasticon on your own server.

Customising Ontomasticon

The page Customising Ontomasticon explains how to modify CSS and PHP templates while maintaining easy code updates.

Translating Ontomasticon

The page Translating Ontomasticon describes how to translate the user interafce, user defined content and terms.

Usage examples

Source code and issues

See the GitHub repository.

Contact

ontomasticon@googlegroups.com

References

[1] Brill's New Pauly.

[2] Ontology (information science). Wikipedia..