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Ontology Developement
- The hard work is to create the ontologies
- requires a good knowledge of the area to be described
- some communities have good expertise already (e.g., librarians)
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OWL is just a tool to formalize ontologies
- Large scale ontologies are often developed in a community process
- Ontologies should be shared and reused
- can be via the simple namespace mechanisms…
- …or via explicit inclusions
- Applications can also be developed with “ontology islands”
- loosely connected ontologies bound by an application…
- … connected via, e.g., a P2P architecture…
- e.g., M.-C. Rousset’s paper at ISWC2004
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