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Towards a Canonical Method to Solve Patterns of Ontology Modeling Issues (9 Month Report) (2006)

Abstract
This report presents a brief description of the different activities carried out in the field of ontology engineering. It identifies a lack of guidelines on how to address modeling issues during the ontology conceptualization phase, in the current methodologies to build ontologies from scratch. It describes an example scenario of an ontology modeling task and it proposes a possible solution inspired by folksonomy based systems and faceted classification. This is followed by a study of the difficulties found to adapt the IEEE Learning Object Metadata (LOM) standard to model an ontology fit for purpose in a specific university curricula domain. It also gives an example of a prototype for a potential next generation semantic web application and a brief summary of the main viewpoints that will characterize such applications. Finally it outlines possible paths of further research to address ontology modeling issues and it suggests looking at various sources for possible solutions (schemes of folksonomy and faceted classification, design principles of object-oriented and relational database applications, and ontology evaluation).

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Download http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/13642/1/Patterns_of_Ontology_Modeling_Issues_v2.pdf
Repository University of Southampton [School of Electronics and Computer Science] (United Kingdom)
Type Technical Report, PeerReviewed
Relation http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/13642/

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