Towards a Glossary of Activities in the Ontology Engineering Field

The Semantic Web of the future will be characterized by using a very large number of ontologies embedded in ontology networks. It is important to provide strong methodological support for collaborative and context-sensitive development of networks of ontologies. This methodological support includes the identification and definition of which activities should be carried out when ontology networks are collaboratively built. In this paper we present the consensus reaching process followed within the NeOn consortium for the identification and definition of the activities involved in the ontology network development process. The consensus reaching process here presented produces as a result the NeOn Glossary of Activities. This work was conceived due to the lack of standardization in the Ontology Engineering terminology, which clearly contrasts with the Software Engineering field. Our future aim is to standardize the NeOn Glossary of Activities.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: LREC
• Authors: María del Carmen Suárez-Figueroa, Asunción Gómez-Pérez
• Keywords: Consensus Reaching Process, Education, LREC 2008, Methodological Support, Ontology Network