Authors: Veda C. Storey, Vijayan Sugumaran
Tags: 2002, conceptual modeling
Although ontologies have been proposed as an important and natural means of representing real worldknowledge for the development of database designs, most ontology creation is not carried out systemati-cally. To be truly useful, a repository of ontologies, organized by application domain is needed, along withprocedures for creating and integrating ontologies into database design methodologies. This researchproposes a methodology for creating and managing domain ontologies. An architecture for an ontologymanagement system is presented and implemented in a prototype. Empirical validation of the prototypedemonstrates the effectiveness of the research.Read the full paper here: https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S0169023X02000484?token=BA7C461A442102B82F63E297C58E6D690E9BB989B992BB6D87048FA0B2A7E01774EBD5EC3613717A8B4FA454D31CC766