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Ontology Building Methodologies

• DILIGENT

  • Distributed, loosely controlled, evolving engineering of ontologies, argumentation with IBIS, Semantic Web
  • Diligent@Scholar.google



• OTK methodology

  • Ontology engineering for knowledge management systems
  • OTK@Scholar.google
  • Dissertation York Sure



• METHONTOLOGY

  • METHONTOLOGY@Scholar.google
  • Methodologies, tools and languages for building ontologies: where is their meeting point?



• 101

  • 101@Scholar.google
  • Natalya F. Noy and Deborah L. McGuinness: Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology
  • Deborah L. McGuinness: Ontologies Come of Age



• Uschold / King

  • uschold king@Scholar.google
  • M. Uschold and M. King: Towards a Methodology for Building Ontologies,1995
  • M. Uschold and M. Grüninger: ONTOLOGIES: Principles, Methods and Applications,1996



• HCOME

  • HCOME@Scholar.google



• Dogma

  • DOGMA@Scholar.google



• UPON

  • A. De Nicola, M. Missikoff, R. Navigli: A proposal for a Unified Process for ONtology building: UPON




• KBSI IDEF5

  • The IDEF5 Ontology Description Capture Method Overview



• CO4

  • Jérôme Euzenat: Cooperative construction of consensual knowledge bases
  • Jérôme Euzenat: A protocol for building consensual and consistent repositories

• Ontology Engineering by Ontology Learning

  • Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, Brigitte Biébow, Sylvie Szulman: Revisiting Ontology Design: A Method Based on Corpus Analysis
  • Paola VELARDI, Roberto NAVIGLI, Alessandro CUCCHIARELLI and Francesca NERI: Evaluation of OntoLearn, a methodology for automatic learning of domain ontologies
  • Paola Velardi, Raúl Poler, José Vicente Tomás: Methodology for the definition of a glossary in a collaborative research project and its application to a European Network of Excellence



• Related communities

  Vladan Devedzic: Understanding Ontology Engineering: Relating Ontology Engineering to Software architectures, Object-oriented analysis and design, Component-based software engineering, Programming languages and compilers, Traditional software engineering, Design patterns

  Database communiy

  • Bodo Hüsemann and Gottfried Vossen:Ontology Engineering from a Database Perspective

  Gene Ontology

  • Ontology Engineering in the context of the Gene Ontology

  Business Semantics: Building Business Vocabularies

  • Business Vocabularies
  • Business Semantics Ldt.
  • John Hall, "Building a 'Vocabulary + Rules' ~ a Practitioner's View," Business Rules Journal, Vol. 5, No. 11 (November 2004)
  http://www.businessrulesgroup.org/brghome.htm

  ISO Standards

  http://www.iso.org/iso/en/CatalogueListPage.CatalogueList?ICS1=1&ICS2=20&scopelist=
  • ISO 1087-1:2000: Terminology work -- Vocabulary -- Part 1: Theory and application
  • din 2336:2004-06

  Thesauri

  • Thesaurus principles and practice

Ontology Reuse Methodologies

	Title	PDF	related
2001	M. Annamalai and L. Sterling: Guidelines for Constructing Reusable Domain Ontologies		citeseer
2001	Pinto, H. S.: A methodology for ontology integration
1998	M. Uschold, M. Healy, K.Williamson, P. Clark, and S.Woods: Ontology Reuse and Application		citeseer
1997	Geri Steve, Aldo Gangemi, Domenico M. Pisanelli: Integrating Medical Terminologies with ONIONS Methodology

Ontology Maintenance Methodologies

Ontology Cost models

A survey to collect data for the ONTOCOM cost estimation model.

	Title	PDF	related
2005	Paslaru, E., Tempich, C.: How Much Does It Cost? Applying ONTOCOM to DILIGENT		ONTOCOM
2005	Paslaru, E.: A Cost Model for Ontology Engineering		ONTOCOM: Ontology Engineering Cost Estimation Model

Maksym Korotkiy: On the Effect of Ontologies on Web Application Development Effort

Tim Menzies: Cost benefits of ontologies

Other

Roberto Poli: Ontological Methodology

Semantic Web

• Semantic web community portal
• Some Ongoing KBS/Ontology Projects and Groups