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A Simplified Agile Methodology for Ontology Development

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OWL: Experiences and Directions – Reasoner Evaluation (OWLED 2016, ORE 2016)

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In this paper we introduce SAMOD, a.k.a. Simplified Agile Methodology for Ontology Development, a novel agile methodology for the development of ontologies by means of small steps of an iterative workflow that focuses on creating well-developed and documented models starting from exemplar domain descriptions. In addition, we discuss the results of an experiment where we asked nine people (with no or limited expertise in Semantic Web technologies and Ontology Engineering) to use SAMOD for developing a small ontology.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    http://www.sparontologies.net/.

  2. 2.

    http://www.essepuntato.it/2013/10/vagueness.

  3. 3.

    http://www.essepuntato.it/2014/03/fentry.

  4. 4.

    http://purl.org/emmedi/oaentry.

  5. 5.

    http://www.essepuntato.it/2015/07/ido.

  6. 6.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/owl2-syntax/.

  7. 7.

    Note that if there are no data in any example of the motivating scenario that answer to the question, it is possible that either the competency question is not relevant for the motivating scenario or the motivating scenario misses some important exemplar data. In those cases one should remove the competency question or modify the motivating scenario accordingly.

  8. 8.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-query/.

  9. 9.

    The whole documentation about the example is available at http://www.essepuntato.it/2013/10/vagueness/samod.

  10. 10.

    The OEs involved in our methodology can vary in number. However SAMOD has been thought for being used also by one OE only.

  11. 11.

    Note that it is possible that multiple entities (i.e. classes, properties, individuals) are actually hidden behind one single definition in the glossary of terms.

  12. 12.

    http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/OEP/.

  13. 13.

    http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/.

  14. 14.

    http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec.

  15. 15.

    http://rdfs.org/sioc/spec.

  16. 16.

    http://www.jenitennison.com/blog/node/128.

  17. 17.

    http://clarkparsia.com/pellet.

  18. 18.

    http://hermit-reasoner.com/.

  19. 19.

    http://jena.sourceforge.net/.

  20. 20.

    http://www.openrdf.org/.

  21. 21.

    If in is actually i1, then the modeletn becomes the current model since no previous model is actually available.

  22. 22.

    An alignment is set of correspondences between entities belonging to two models different models.

  23. 23.

    It is the process of modifying a model (and also to align it, if necessary) to fully fit or include it into another model.

  24. 24.

    http://github.com/essepuntato/samod.

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We would like to thank Jun Zhao for her precious comments and concerns about the initial drafts of SAMOD, David Shotton for our fruitful discussions when developing the SPAR Ontologies, Francesca Toni as one of the first users of such methodology, and Panos Alexopoulos as co-author of the Vagueness Ontology that we used herein to introduce all the examples of the SAMOD development process.

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Peroni, S. (2017). A Simplified Agile Methodology for Ontology Development. In: Dragoni, M., Poveda-Villalón, M., Jimenez-Ruiz, E. (eds) OWL: Experiences and Directions – Reasoner Evaluation. OWLED ORE 2016 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10161. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54627-8_5

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