Understanding and Evaluating Methodologies: NIMSAD, a Systematic Framework
Understanding and Evaluating Methodologies: NIMSAD, a Systematic Framework
Methodologies, tools and languages for building ontologies: where is their meeting point?
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Using OWL to model biological knowledge
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
A software engineering approach to ontology building
Information Systems
Content Ontology Design Patterns as Practical Building Blocks for Web Ontologies
ER '08 Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
Embedding Knowledge Patterns into OWL
ESWC 2009 Heraklion Proceedings of the 6th European Semantic Web Conference on The Semantic Web: Research and Applications
Experiments on pattern-based ontology design
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Knowledge capture
OntoCase-Automatic Ontology Enrichment Based on Ontology Design Patterns
ISWC '09 Proceedings of the 8th International Semantic Web Conference
Building concept representations from reusable components
AAAI'97/IAAI'97 Proceedings of the fourteenth national conference on artificial intelligence and ninth conference on Innovative applications of artificial intelligence
Modelling ontology evaluation and validation
ESWC'06 Proceedings of the 3rd European conference on The Semantic Web: research and applications
Software architectures for scalable ontology networks
ESWC'12 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on The Semantic Web: research and applications
Is there beauty in ontologies?
Applied Ontology - Is there Beauty in Ontologies?
Knowledge extraction based on discourse representation theory and linguistic frames
EKAW'12 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management
Ontology testing - methodology and tool
EKAW'12 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management
An empirical perspective on representing time
Proceedings of the seventh international conference on Knowledge capture
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Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs) support reusability and use of best practices in ontology engineering. Previous studies have shown that Content ODPs, in particular, have some measurable beneficial effects on the produced ontologies. However, another conclusion was that methodology and tool support was needed. Now such support exist, in the form of the XD methodology and the XD Tools. In this paper we present a set of experiments for (i) confirming previous conclusions concerning the usefulness of Content ODPs, (ii) investigating the usefulness of the XD methodology, and (iii) investigating the usefulness of the XD Tools. Main conclusions are that we can confirm most of the previous results concerning the usefulness of Content ODPs, and certain negative effects observed previously are now mitigated by the new tool support. The tool is perceived as quite useful, however it also adds some overhead. The XD methodology is found to be a helpful means to organize the design process, and the main benefit shown through the experiments is the testing focus, resulting in a drastic decrease of certain frequent mistakes.