A translation approach to portable ontology specifications
Knowledge Acquisition - Special issue: Current issues in knowledge modeling
Distributed and Parallel Databases
Towards the Semantic Web: Ontology-driven Knowledge Management
Towards the Semantic Web: Ontology-driven Knowledge Management
Methodologies, tools and languages for building ontologies: where is their meeting point?
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Ontology languages for the semantic web: A never completely updated review
Knowledge-Based Systems
Multi-perspective ontologies: Resolving common ontology development problems
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Journal of Information Science
A flexible framework to experiment with ontology learning techniques
Knowledge-Based Systems
MOBMAS: A methodology for ontology-based multi-agent systems development
Information and Software Technology
Constructing an enterprise ontology for an automotive supplier
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Theories of meaning in schema matching: An exploratory study
Information Systems
Development of a mechanism for ontology-based product lifecycle knowledge integration
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
An ontology-based business intelligence application in a financial knowledge management system
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
An ontology, intelligent agent-based framework for the provision of semantic web services
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
A software engineering approach to ontology building
Information Systems
Building an operational product ontology system
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Knowledge management applied to e-government services: the use of an ontology
KMGov'03 Proceedings of the 4th IFIP international working conference on Knowledge management in electronic government
A stakeholder analysis of interoperable data architecture: the case of I-Choose
Proceedings of the 13th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research
Information sharing and financial market regulation: understanding the capability gap
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance
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Ontology development is considered to be a useful approach to the design and implementation of interoperable systems. This literature review and commentary examines the current state of knowledge in this field with particular reference to processes involved in assuring epistemological adequacy. It takes the perspective of the information systems practitioner keen to adopt a systematic approach to in-house ontology design, taking into consideration previously published work. The study arises from author involvement in an integration/interoperability project on systems that support Scottish Common Housing Registers in which, ultimately, ontological modelling was not deployed. Issues concerning the agreement of meaning, and the implications for the creation of interoperable systems, are discussed. The extent to which those theories, methods and frameworks provide practitioners with a usable set of tools is explored, and examples of practical applications of ontological modelling are noted. The findings from the review of the literature demonstrate a number of difficulties faced by information systems practitioners keen to develop and deploy domain ontologies. A major problem is deciding which broad approach to take: to rely on automatic ontology construction techniques, or to rely on keywords and domain experts to develop ontologies.