Insights from an OTTR-centric Ontology Engineering Methodology

• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2309.13130
• Publication Date: 2023-01-01
• Authors: Moritz Blum; Basil Ell; Philipp Cimiano
• Keywords: Ontology engineering; Template

OTTR is a language for representing ontology modeling patterns, which enables to build ontologies or knowledge bases by instantiating templates. Thereby, particularities of the ontological representation are hidden from domain experts, and it engineers to, some extent, separate processes deciding about what information model how information, e.g., design patterns use. Certain decisions can thus be postponed benefit focusing on one these processes. To date, only few works engineering where templates applied described in literature. In this paper, we outline our methodology report findings activities Material Science. activities, play key role. Our process bottom-up, as begin existing data that then, via templates, fed into graph, top-down, first focus postpone decision data. We find, among other things, especially useful means communication with experts. Furthermore, find because encapsulate decisions, becomes flexible, meaning changed at little cost.