NeOn Methodology for Building Ontology Networks: a Scenario-based Methodology

Abstract

The 1990s and the first years of this new millennium have witnessed the growing interest of many practitioners in methodologies that support the creation of single or isolated ontologies. All these approaches have supposed a step forward since they have transformed the art of constructing single ontologies into an engineering activity. With the goal of speeding up the ontology development process, ontology practitioners are starting to reuse and re-engineer as much as possible knowledge resources (such as ontologies, thesauri, lexicons, and classification schemas), which already have reached some degree of consensus. In this paper, we present the set of nine scenarios identified in the NeOn Methodology framework. Additionally, we present how such scenarios have been followed in different use cases.