An Operational Approach for Capturing and Tracing the Ontology Development Process

VEGETTI, MARCELA; ROLDÁN, MARÍA LUCIANA; GONNET, SILVIO; HENNING, GABRIELA; LEONE, HORACIO

Recife

Workshop; 5th ONTOBRAS (5th Ontology Research Seminar) and 7th MOST (7th International Workshop on Metamodels, Ontologies, Semantic Technologies); 2012

Universidad Federal de Pernambuco

The history of an ontology development project, including its intermediate products, together with the executed activities, and the decisions made, might be of great importance in other future ontology developments. However, current tools supporting this kind of processes do not capture such information; thus, the process trace is lost, and any new ontology development project would start from scratch. This paper presents a framework meant to overcome these deficiencies, allowing the capture and trace of such projects.