Building Ontologies: Towards a Unified Methodology (1996)
| Venue: | In 16th Annual Conf. of the British Computer Society Specialist Group on Expert Systems |
| Citations: | 58 - 0 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Uschold96buildingontologies:,
author = {Mike Uschold},
title = {Building Ontologies: Towards a Unified Methodology},
booktitle = {In 16th Annual Conf. of the British Computer Society Specialist Group on Expert Systems},
year = {1996},
pages = {16--18}
}
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Abstract
The use and importance of ontologies is becoming more widespread, however building ontologies is largely a black art. The aim of this paper is to identify and characterise what we currently know and to move towards the longer term goal of developing a comprehensive unified methodology. We first identify dimensions for characterising ontologies, to be used as a basis for noting which techniques and guidelines for building ontologies apply in different circumstances. We then give an overview of the current state of the art, noting that most work addresses just a small part of the life cycle. The very few more complete methods are limited to case studies involving single ontologies and they are hard to compare. In the main part of this paper, we examine two such methods and give a framework for comparing and unifying them. We emphasise that different approaches are required for difference circumstances, and give some guidelines for when to use which techniques. We conclude by ...
