Authors:
Irlán Grangel-González
;
Lavdim Halilaj
;
Gökhan Coskun
and
Sören Auer
Affiliation:
University of Bonn, Germany
Keyword(s):
Vocabulary Development by Convention, Convention over Configuration.
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:
A major bottleneck for a wider deployment and use of ontologies and knowledge engineering techniques
is the lack of established conventions along with cumbersome and inefficient support for vocabulary and
ontology authoring. We argue, that the pragmatic development by convention paradigm well-accepted within
software engineering, can be successfully applied for ontology engineering, too. However, the definition of
a valid set of conventions requires broadly-accepted best-practices. In this regard, we empirically analyzed a
number of popular vocabularies and ontology development efforts with respect to their use of guidelines and
common practices. Based on this analysis, we identified the following main aspects of common practices:
documentation, internationalization, naming, structure, reuse, validation and authoring. In this paper, these
aspects are presented and discussed in detail. We propose a set of practices for each aspect and evaluate their
relevance in a study with vocabular
y developers. The overall goal is to pave the way for a new paradigm
of vocabulary development similar to Software Development by Convention, which we name Vocabulary
Development by Convention.
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