WonderTools? A comparative study of ontological engineering tools

✍ Scribed by A.J. DUINEVELD; R. STOTER; M.R. WEIDEN; B. KENEPA; V.R. BENJAMINS

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 526 KB
• Volume: 52
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1071-5819
• DOI: 10.1006/ijhc.1999.0366

✦ Synopsis

Ontologies are becoming increasingly important in a variety of di!erent "elds, such as intelligent searching on the web, knowledge sharing and reuse, knowledge management, etc. Therefore, we expect that the need for tools to support the construction of ontologies will increase signi"cantly in the coming years. In this paper, we investigate several of these tools. We evaluate the tools using two di!erent ontologies: a simple one about university employees, and a second, more complex one, about the structure of a university study. The evaluation was conducted using a framework, which incorporates aspects of ontology buildings and testing, as well as cooperation with other users. Our conclusions are that the usefulness of the tools depends on the level of the users and the stage of development of the ontology.

2000 Academic Press KEYWORDS: ontology tools.

&&Sadly true, but then it's probably still easier to use than Photoshop TM 2 We're not generally expecting plumbers and janitors to build ontologies.'' [Comment of James Rice, principle implementor of Ontolingua].