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Ontology Development

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The development of ontologies is comparable in complexity with the development of a complex software. Therefore, it is not enough just to be familiar with the available ontology formalisms to build high-quality ontologies. Development methodologies are needed, which structure the steps of the ontology development process. This chapter will introduce two popular methodologies – On-To-Knowledge and METHONTOLOGY – which show most of the major ideas behind ontology methodologies. Creating the conceptual ontology model – which is one of the steps in the ontology development process – is a highly complex task, and methodologies alone do not provide solutions how to perform it. This chapter therefore also provides an overview of best-practice ontology design principles, which provide standard solutions for the most common problems. A discussion about the modularisation of big ontologies closes this chapter.

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G’abor, N. (2007). Ontology Development. In: Studer, R., Grimm, S., Abecker, A. (eds) Semantic Web Services. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-70894-4_4

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