Abstract

A few research groups are now proposing a series of steps and methodologies for developing ontologies. However, mainly due to the fact that Ontological Engineering is still a relatively immature discipline, each work group employs its own methodology. Our goal is to present the most representative methodologies used in ontology development and to perform an analysis of such methodologies against the same framework of reference. So, the goal of this paper is not to provide new insights about methodologies, but to put it all in one place and help people to select which methodology to use. 1 Introduction One important difference between a technical field that is in its "infancy" and another that has reached "adulthood" is that the mature field has widely accepted methodologies, while the emerging discipline usually The copyright of this paper belongs to the papers authors. Permission to copy without fee all or part of this material is granted provided that the copies are n...

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