Dear Edmon, all,
with respect to ontology development methodologies, one recent methodology that can be easily used by both ontology experts and ontology practitioners (domain experts, software developers, users, etc.) due to (a) the prescriptive guidelines it includes
and (b) the scenario-based approach mainly focused on reusing knowledge resources is the "NeOn Methodology for building ontology networks" ([1], [2], [3]).
This is a scenario-based methodology that provides developers with guidelines for different processes and activities (such as ontology requirements specification, scheduling, ontology reuse, ontology design patterns reuse, and ontology evaluation).
The guidelines provided by the methodology are very detailed and (whenever possible) examples are included to help developers in the application of the methodology.
The methodology has been used to develop ontologies in different domains and by different groups of people.
This methodology was part of my PhD thesis, so if you have any doubt, comment or suggestion I will be very happy to hear them.
In addition, within the Ontology Engineering Group (OEG) we are currently working on more agile approaches.
One of these agile approaches is focused on the development of vocabularies for Linked Data [4]. The approach is part of the PhD Thesis of Maria Poveda-Villalon.
I hope this helps.
Best Regards,
Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa.
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[1] Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa. "NeOn Methodology for Building Ontology Networks: Specification, Scheduling and Reuse". ISBN: 978-3-89838-338-7. IOS Press - AKA. 2012
[2] Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa, Asunción Gómez-Pérez, Enrico Motta, Aldo Gangemi (eds.). "Ontology Engineering in a Networked World". ISBN: 978-3-642-24794-1. Springer 2012 (http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-3-642-24793-4)
[3] Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa. "NeOn Methodology for Building Ontology Networks: Specification, Scheduling and Reuse". PhD Thesis. 2010. Universidad Politecnica de Madrid.
http://oa.upm.es/3879/
[4] María Poveda-Villalón. "A Reuse-Based Lightweight Method for Developing Linked Data Ontologies and Vocabularies". ESWC 2012: 833-837
El 02/02/2013 4:02, Edmon Begoli escribió:
In software engineering there are software development methodologies
that bureaucracies prefer
and then there are methodologies that people who do the real work
(developers, designers) prefer.
These are usually some iterative but highly effective, practical methodologies.
We know them as Agile, XP, etc., (although I often find that it is
good to have moderation with ultra loose XP style)
Is there such a thing in ontology engineering?
What is the methodology that you would recommend for
smallish, small team ontology engineering?
What are your preferred ontology engineering methodologies in general?
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