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A Reference Guide to Ontology Best Practices
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content: A Single-stop Assembly of Ontology Tips and Pointers As we conclude this recent series on ontology tools and building [1], one item stands clear: the relative lack of guidance on how one actually builds and maintains these beasties. While there is much of a theoretic basis in the literature and on the Web, and much of methodologies and algorithms, there is surprisingly little on how one actually goes about creating an ontology. An earlier posting pointed to the now classic Ontology Development 101 article as a good starting point [2]. Another really excellent starting point is the Protégé 4 user manual [3]. Though it is obviously geared to the Protégé tool and its interface, it also is an instructive tutorial on general ontology (OWL) topics and constructs. I highly recommend printing it out and reading it in full. If you do nothing else, you should download, print and study in full the Protégé 4 users manual [3]. Learning by Example Another way to learn more about ontology construction is to inspect some existing ontologies. Though one may use a variety of specialty search engines and Google to find ontologies [4], there are actually three curated services that are more useful and which I recommend. The best, by far, is the repository created by the University of Manchester for the now-completed TONES project [5]. TONES has access to some 200+ vetted ontologies, plus a search and filtering facility that helps much in finding specific OWL constructs. It is a bit difficult to filter by OWL 2-compliant only ontologies (except for OWL 2 EL), but other than that, the access and use of the repository is very helpful. Another useful aspect is that the system is driven by the OWL API, a central feature that we recommended in the prior tools landscape posting. From a learning standpoint this site is helpful because you can filter by vocabulary. An older, but similar, repository is OntoSelect. It is difficult to gauge how current this site is, but it nonetheless provides use…
encoded: A Single-stop Assembly of Ontology Tips and Pointers As we conclude this recent series on ontology tools and building [1], one item stands clear: the relative lack of guidance on how one actually builds and maintains these beasties. While there is much of a theoretic basis in the literature and on the Web, and much of methodologies and algorithms, there is surprisingly little on how one actually goes about creating an ontology. An earlier posting pointed to the now classic Ontology Development 101 article as a good starting point [2]. Another really excellent starting point is the Protégé 4 user manual [3]. Though it is obviously geared to the Protégé tool and its interface, it also is an instructive tutorial on general ontology (OWL) topics and constructs. I highly recommend printing it out and reading it in full. If you do nothing else, you should download, print and study in full the Protégé 4 users manual [3]. Learning by Example Another way to learn more about ontology construction is to inspect some existing ontologies. Though one may use a variety of specialty search engines and Google to find ontologies [4], there are actually three curated services that are more useful and which I recommend. The best, by far, is the repository created by the University of Manchester for the now-completed TONES project [5]. TONES has access to some 200+ vetted ontologies, plus a search and filtering facility that helps much in finding specific OWL constructs. It is a bit difficult to filter by OWL 2-compliant only ontologies (except for OWL 2 EL), but other than that, the access and use of the repository is very helpful. Another useful aspect is that the system is driven by the OWL API, a central feature that we recommended in the prior tools landscape posting. From a learning standpoint this site is helpful because you can filter by vocabulary. An older, but similar, repository is OntoSelect. It is difficult to gauge how current this site is, but it nonetheless provides use…
topic: irON
topic: Ontologies
topic: Ontology Best Practices
topic: Semantic Enterprise
topic: Semantic Web
topic: UMBEL
links to: sequin.html
links to: [1]
links to: [2]
links to: [3]
links to: [4]
links to: TONES
links to: [5]
links to: OWL API
links to: tools landscape posting
links to: OntoSelect
links to: Ontology Design Patterns
links to: [6]
links to: exemplary ontologies
links to: [7]
links to: The Open Biological and Biomedical Ontologies
links to: [8]
links to: organized listing of criteria or guidance
links to: [9]
links to: [10]
links to: [11]
links to: Structured Dynamics
links to: internal documentation
links to: adaptive ontologies
links to: [12]
links to: lightweight, domain ontologies
links to: [13]
links to: [14]
links to: [15]
links to: [16]
links to: [17]
links to: [18]
links to: open world approach
links to: [19]
links to: object-oriented programming
links to: [20]
links to: OWL
links to: RDF Schema
links to: CamelCase
links to: [21]
links to: synsets
links to: Wordnet
links to: TechWiki
links to: [22]
links to: [23]
links to: UML
links to: [24]
links to: [25]
links to: [26]
links to: [27]
links to: ontology-driven applications
links to: [28]
links to: structWSF
links to: [29]
links to: semantic component ontology
links to: [30]
links to: irON
links to: [31]
links to: OpenStructs
links to: An Executive Intro to Ontologies
links to: update
links to: survey
links to: Lightweight, Domain Ontologies Development Methodology
links to: ontology101-noy-mcguinness.html
links to: ProtegeOWLTutorialP4 v1 2.pdf
links to: Swoogle
links to: FalconS

Mike Bergman
type: User

Mike Bergman
type: Person

tools landscape posting
label: A New Landscape in Ontology Development Tools

Ontology Design Patterns
label: OntologyDesignPatterns.org

adaptive ontologies
label: Confronting Misconceptions with Adaptive Ontologies

lightweight, domain ontologies
label: A New Methodology for Buidling Lightweight, Domain Ontologies

open world approach
label: open world assumption

semantic component ontology
label: semantic component

Watson

Sindice

SWSE

TONES Ontology Repository

NeOn project

UMBEL

general vocabulary

Dublin Core

DC Terms

Event

FOAF

GeoNames

SKOS

Timeline

UMBEL

BIBO

DOAP

SIOC

description logics

punning

On the Properties of Metamodeling in OWL

closed world assumption

business intelligence

data warehousing

data integration

federation

knowledge management

The Open World Assumption: Elephant in the Room

TechWiki

OpenStructs

downloaded for free

Large-scale RDF Graph Visualization Tools

Cytoscape: Hands-down Winner for Large-scale Graph Visualization

Exploding the Domain

Wikipedia

Cyc

UMBEL

infobox

Adobe Flash

Semantic Component Ontology