Conceptual database design: an Entity-relationship approach
Conceptual database design: an Entity-relationship approach
A translation approach to portable ontology specifications
Knowledge Acquisition - Special issue: Current issues in knowledge modeling
Knowledge engineering and management: the CommonKADS methodology
Knowledge engineering and management: the CommonKADS methodology
Process-Centered Requirements Engineering
Process-Centered Requirements Engineering
Building a Chemical Ontology Using Methontology and the Ontology Design Environment
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Knowledge Processes and Ontologies
IEEE Intelligent Systems
A Formal Ontology of Properties
EKAW '00 Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management
Methodologies, tools and languages for building ontologies: where is their meeting point?
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Digital libraries and web-based information systems
The description logic handbook
Unleashing Web 2.0: From Concepts to Creativity
Unleashing Web 2.0: From Concepts to Creativity
ActiveTags: making tags more useful anywhere on the web
ADC '09 Proceedings of the Twentieth Australasian Conference on Australasian Database - Volume 92
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Ontologies have recently become popular in the context of the Semantic Web as an appropriate tool for developing a common reference terminology and language in specific application domains. However, the design and specification of an ontology still does not follow a generally accepted methodology, but is considered to be a task based on perception and intuition. This paper tries to remedy this situation by proposing a novel methodology for ontology engineering that is based on the phase model of traditional database design. Accordingly, the design process of an ontology consists of (1) requirements analysis, (2) conceptual design, (3) logical design, and (4) physical design. Detailed design guidelines are given which include continuous evaluation at the end of each phase. The exposition also provides a running example to ease the understanding of the core activities in each stage.