|
Abstract
|
|
|---|---|
| With the goal of speeding up the ontology development process, ontology developers are reusing as much as possible available ontological and nonontological resources such as classification schemes, thesauri, lexicons, and folksonomies, that have already reached some consensus. The reuse of such nonontological resources necessarily involves their re-engineering into ontologies. Based on this new trend, this chapter presents a general method for re-engineering non-ontological resources into ontologies, taking into account that non-ontological resources are highly heterogeneous in their data model and contents. The method is based on the so-called re-engineering patterns, which define a procedure that transforms the non-ontological resource components into ontology representational primitives. This chapter also presents the description of a software library that implements the transformations suggested by the patterns. Finally, the chapter depicts an evaluation of the method. | |
|
International
|
Si |
|
|
|
|
Book Edition
|
|
|
Book Publishing
|
Springer |
|
ISBN
|
978-3-642-24793-4 |
|
Series
|
|
|
Book title
|
Ontology Engineering in a Networked World |
|
From page
|
0 |
|
To page
|
0 |