Authors:
Marcela Vegetti
1
;
Luciana Roldán
1
;
Silvio Gonnet
1
;
Gabriela Henning
2
and
Horacio Leone
1
Affiliations:
1
Ingar (CONICET/UTN), Argentina
;
2
Intec (CONICET/UNL), Argentina
Keyword(s):
Ontology Development Processes, Ontology Engineering, Support Tools, Design Processes, Design Rationale.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Data Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Ontology Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
In the last two decades several methodologies to assist the ontology development process have been reported in the literature. However, despite important advances, there are no computational tools supporting them yet. Thus, when an ontology development process ends, the things that remain are just design products (e.g., competency questions, class diagrams, implementations, etc.), without an explicit representation of how they were obtained. This paper presents a framework meant to explicitly capture and trace ontology development processes (the activities carried out, the actors executing them, etc.), along with their associated products.