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This chapter focuses on ontologies as means of representing knowledge and reason across the various domains. In this chapter, the state of the art in ontology engineering from a number of different perspectives is reviewed ranging from methodologies to manage the ontology lifecycle, from their inception to maintenance, to knowledge representing languages, reasoning methods and technology, and ontology development frameworks. The role of networked ontologies as a new stage in ontology engineering is described, where we transit from isolated information silos to networks of knowledge. Key issues of networked ontologies like modularization, customization and ontology alignment are approached. The different methods, technologies, and frameworks described herein with real life applications using ontologies are illustrated. This chapter is concluded with the introduction of key concepts for future work in ontology engineering and the Semantic Web.
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Gómez-Pérez, J.M., Ruiz, C. (2010). Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web. In: Velásquez, J.D., Jain, L.C. (eds) Advanced Techniques in Web Intelligence - I. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 311. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14461-5_8
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