A proposal for a unified process for ontology building: UPON

  • Authors:
  • Antonio De Nicola;Michele Missikoff;Roberto Navigli

  • Affiliations:
  • Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Roma;Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Roma;Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Roma

  • Venue:
  • DEXA'05 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Ontologies are the backbone of the Semantic Web, a semantic-aware version of the World Wide Web. To the end of making available large-scale, high quality domain ontologies, effective and usable methodologies are needed to facilitate the process of Ontology Building. Many of the methods proposed so far only partly refer to well-known and widely used standards from other areas, like software engineering and knowledge representation. In this paper we present UPON, a methodology for ontology building derived from the Unified Software Development Process. A comparative evaluation with other methodologies, as well as the results of its adoption in the context of the Athena Integrated Project, are also discussed.