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Ontology Engineering: From an Art to a Craft

The Case of the Data Mining Ontologies

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In this paper, we report on our experience and discuss the problems we encountered while designing, implementing and revising a set of ontologies describing the domain of data mining. After giving a short description of the ontologies we have developed, we focus on a set of key issues that we think are important and need to be addressed by the ontology engineering community. These include ontology evaluation, testing, versioning, the use of design patterns, the use of IT portal(s), re-usability, and compatibility. To illustrate the key issues we provide examples that originate from our work on the ontologies for data mining. We conclude the paper with a summary and some suggestions that we believe should be addressed by the ontology engineering research community.

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Notes

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    http://obofoundry.org/.

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    http://obi-ontology.org/.

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    https://github.com/information-artifact-ontology/IAO/.

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    http://ifomis.uni-saarland.de/bfo/.

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    http://owl.cs.manchester.ac.uk/publications/talks-and-tutorials/protg-owl-tutorial/.

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    http://clojure.org/.

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    http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=2599.

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    https://git-scm.com/.

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    http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Ontology_Versions.

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    https://git-scm.com/html/.

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    http://bioportal.bioontology.org/.

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    http://www.w3.org/TR/webont-req/.

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Panče Panov and Sašo Džeroski are supported by The Slovenian Research Agency (Grant P2-0103) and the European Commission (Grants ICT-2013-612944 MAESTRA and KT-2013-604102 HBP).

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    Larisa Soldatova

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Soldatova, L., Panov, P., Džeroski, S. (2016). Ontology Engineering: From an Art to a Craft. In: Tamma, V., Dragoni, M., Gonçalves, R., Ławrynowicz, A. (eds) Ontology Engineering. OWLED 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9557. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33245-1_18

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