Objectives Providing tools for ontological engineering

Objectives

• Providing tools for ontological engineering

• Designing sub-ontologies

• Versioning

• Consolidation

• Cross-Referencing

Ontology repository

• Once an ontology is ready

• be stored into a repository
• anybody can read it
• only the custodian can update/replace it
• inner quality control
• outer quality control
• consolidation
• cross-referencing is possible

Languages

• Presently, the meta-language is English

• Possibility of using any kind of languages (Latin alphabet) for concepts

• No translation is provided

• Still open issue

Pre-consensus and Post-consensus ontologies

Multiple definitions

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Consolidation

• Inner quality control

• Versioning

• possibility of replacing an ontology by a new one

• Cross-referencing

• links between two concepts, each in one ontology
• adding new definitions of a concept already stored in another ontology

• Informing the concerned custodians