Authors:
Rolf Grütter
1
;
Bettina Waldvogel
1
and
Curdin Derungs
2
Affiliations:
1
Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Switzerland
;
2
University of Zurich-Irchel, Switzerland
Keyword(s):
Knowledge Representation, Ontology Engineering, Applications and Case Studies.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications and Case-studies
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Data Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge Representation
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Ontology Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Ontology engineering is a well travelled ground, at least from a theoretical point of view. Long before the Semantic Web became popular, principles for the design of ontologies were established and, recently, guidelines and methods for building ontologies were published. Despite this guidance, there are issues in practical ontology development, which are not covered in the literature. This paper discusses some problems that occurred during the manual construction of an OWL application ontology and that required design decisions by the developers.