Where can I find a good collection of public domain owl ontologies for various domains?

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Published on 2008-10-02T21:14:56Z Indexed on 2010/06/07 10:12 UTC
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I am building an ontology-processing tool and need lots of examples of various owl ontologies, as people are building and using them in the real world. I'm not talking about foundational ontologies such as Cyc, I'm talking about smaller, domain-specific ones.

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