Bulding ontologies with ontoforinfoscience methodology: A detailed approach to the activiyies of ontology development [Construindo ontologias com a metodologia ontoforinfoscience: Uma abordagem detalhada das atividades do desenvolvimento ontológico] [Construyendo ontologías con la metodología ontoforinfoscience: Un enfoque detallado de las actividades del desarrollo ontológico]

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2017

Authors

Mendonça, FM (Author) Other; António Lucas Soares (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: Ciencia da Informacao

Vol. 46

Pages: 43-59

ISSN: 0100-1965

Publisher: Instituto Brasileiro de Bibliografia e Documentacao. Conselho nacional de pesquisas

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Scopus - 3 Citations

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Authenticus ID: P-00N-DCB

DOI: 10.18225/ci.inf..v46i1.4013

Abstract (EN): In the use of ontologies as knowledge information systems (KOS) for purposes of representation, organization and information retrieval, one of the biggest challenges is the ontology development process, which is complex and requires specific technical knowledge of the developers. In the recent years, several methodologies have been developed to support the ontologies building, which have steps well established, but not always well detailed for developers, causing problems in the ontologies development. This paper describes a methodology for the ontologies development, called OntoForInfoScience, which has a differential the detail of the activities of the ontology development cycle, explaining more clearly technical terms, logical and philosophical issues involved in the construction of ontologies. As current practical results of OntoForInfoScience, we presented part of the content of two ontologies developed with such methodology: (i) Hemonto: a biomedical ontology on the human blood components used for hematology and hemotherapy; (ii) Ontolegis: a legal domain ontology that represents the knowledge related to Brazilian legislative information on medical law. It is concluded that the OntoForInfoScience was very useful for the construction of formal ontological representations in both domains modeled and their details allowed to help the developers in logical and philosophical questions of the process of development and in the understanding of technical concepts of ontologies.

Language: Portuguese

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific