2024-03-29T14:44:23Z
https://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/cgi/oai2
oai:pubs.cs.uct.ac.za:1397
2020-12-21T10:56:16Z
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https://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/id/eprint/1397/
The African Wildlife Ontology tutorial ontologies
Keet, C. Maria
Ontology engineering
Background
Most tutorial ontologies focus on illustrating one aspect of ontology development, notably language features and automated reasoners, but ignore ontology development factors, such as emergent modelling guidelines and ontological principles. Yet, novices replicate examples from the exercise they carry out. Not providing good examples holistically causes the propagation of sub-optimal ontology development, which may negatively affect the quality of a real domain ontology.
Results
We identified 22 requirements that a good tutorial ontology should satisfy regarding subject domain, logics and reasoning, and engineering aspects. We developed a set of ontologies about African Wildlife to serve as tutorial ontologies. A majority of the requirements have been met with the set of African Wildlife Ontology tutorial ontologies, which are introduced in this paper. The African Wildlife Ontology is mature and has been used yearly in an ontology engineering course or tutorial since 2010 and is included in a recent ontology engineering textbook with relevant examples and exercises.
Conclusion
The African Wildlife Ontology provides a wide range of options concerning examples and exercises for ontology engineering well beyond illustrating just language features and automated reasoning. It assists in demonstrating tasks concerning ontology quality, such as alignment to a foundational ontology and satisfying competency questions, versioning, and multilingual ontologies.
2020
Journal article (online only)
Keet, C. Maria (2020) The African Wildlife Ontology tutorial ontologies, Journal of Biomedical Semantics, 11.