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The analysis of the application of the existing knowledge engineering methodologies and tools shows that they are up to now virtually not used in practice (see [13, page 16]). This stands in contrast to the often proclaimed necessity for knowledge engineering. What can be the reason for this discrepancy? Most of the existing knowledge engineering methodologies adopt techniques and apply process models from software engineering. However, in many scenarios required knowledge engineering tasks reveal specific characteristics, which an knowledge engineering methodology should be aware of. In the following, we describe briefly some specific characteristics of Knowledge Engineering important for Rapid- OWL.
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Auer, S., Herre, H. (2007). RapidOWL — An Agile Knowledge Engineering Methodology. In: Virbitskaite, I., Voronkov, A. (eds) Perspectives of Systems Informatics. PSI 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4378. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70881-0_36
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