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Prologue
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|     I keep six honest serving-men (they taught me all I knew);
|     Their names are What and Why and When
|     and How and Where and Who.
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|     - Rudyard Kipling, "The Elephant's Child" 1902.
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These six questions are tools to gain knowledge.

In science, two important questions are "How" and "Why" things are `related`.

Discovery processes investigate `relationships among things`.

Ontologies are systematic tools for recording knowledge and documenting `relationships among things`.

Ontomatica integrates knowledge and informatics for foods, agricultural commodities, agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals to present important `relationships among them`.