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This document describes descriptive ontology for finguistic and cognitive engineering (DOLCE) as an ontology that is conformant to the requirements specified for top-level ontologies in ISO/IEC 21838-1.This document describes DOLCE as a resource designed to support ontology design, ontology integration, and semantic integration of heterogeneous information systems.The following are within the scope of this document:— definitions of classes and relations in the signature of DOLCE;— axiomatizations of DOLCE in OWL 2 and CL;— documentation of the conformity of DOLCE to the requirements specified for top-level ontologies in ISO/IEC 21838-1;— documentation of the methodology for specifying domain ontologies that conform to DOLCE.The following are outside the scope of this document:— specification of ontology languages, including the languages RDF, OWL, and CL standardly used in ontology development;— specification of methods for reasoning with ontologies;— specification of translators between the notations of ontologies developed in different ontology languages.