Usage Scenarios and Goals for Ontology Definition Metamodel

摘要

This paper contains a taxonomy of the uses of ontologies, intended as motivation for the Ontology Definition Metamodel development effort by the Object Management Group. It describes several usage scenarios for ontologies and proposes example applications for use in these scenarios. Many of the scenarios and applications are based on efforts currently underway in industry and academia. The scenarios descriptions are followed by goals for the Ontology Definition Metamodel.