2006 AMethodologyForBuildingConceptualDomainOntologies
- (Ordnance Survey Research, 2006) ⇒ Katalin Kovacs, Catherine Dolbear, G. Hart, J. Goodwin, and H. Mizen. (2006). “A Methodology For Building Conceptual Domain Ontologies." Ordnance Survey Research Labs, Technical Report: IRI-0002.
Subject Headings: Ordnance Survey, Geophysical Ontology, Conceptual Domain Ontology.
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This document provides a set of systematic tasks and guidelines for producing conceptual domain ontologies. The conceptual ontology is in itself a complete ontology, but can be further transformed into a ‘computational ontology’ that is a machine understandable representation of the conceptual ontology. This document is aimed at domain experts, those who posses the real domain knowledge, who are intending to build their own conceptual ontologies or to lead others in the construction of one. It is also limited to describing our experiences with domain ontologies and has not been tested on task or application ontologies.
The domain expert will be taken through five main stages:
- first, the scope, purpose and other requirements of the ontology are identified;
- second, source knowledge and documents are gathered;
- third, the ontology content is captured in a Knowledge Glossary;
- fourth, the glossary content in structured English sentences are written;
- and finally, the tasks for evaluating and validating the ontology are described.
Tasks and guidelines are supported with examples from Ordnance Survey’s Hydrology Ontology.
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