Abstract
Ontologies are dynamic entities that evolve over time. There are several challenges associated with the management of ontology dynamics, from the adequate control of ontology changes to the identification and administration of ontology versions. Moreover, ontologies are increasingly becoming part of a network of complex relationships and dependencies, where they reuse and extend other ontologies, have associated metadata in order to ease sharing and reuse, are used to integrate heterogeneous knowledge bases, etc. Under these circumstances, a change in an ontology does not only affect the ontology itself but may also have consequences in all its related artifacts. In this chapter, we propose methodological guidelines for carrying out the ontology evolution activity. We target different scenarios, supporting users in the process of ontology evolution from a generic perspective and on how to use tools that semiautomatically assist them in discovering, evaluating, and integrating domain changes to evolve ontologies. To illustrate their applicability, we describe how such guidelines have been used in real example applications.
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Details on how to install and run Evolva can be found at: http://evolva.kmi.open.ac.uk/
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The SWRC ontology can be downloaded from: http://ontoware.org/swrc/swrc/SWRCOWL/swrc_updated_v0.7.1.owl
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Palma, R., Zablith, F., Haase, P., Corcho, O. (2012). Ontology Evolution. In: Suárez-Figueroa, M., Gómez-Pérez, A., Motta, E., Gangemi, A. (eds) Ontology Engineering in a Networked World. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24794-1_11
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