Issues in Building Ontology for Information Systems

摘要

Despite a shared understanding that ontology plays a central role in Information Systems, researchers have not yet produced comprehensive guidelines for building ontologies for Information Systems modeling. This paper reports a study on methodologies to build ontologies for Information Systems. We searched major bibliographic databases from which we selected 30 methodologies to investigate. The analysis of the methodologies was formulated around the core components of an ontology and the four issues raised in a preliminary study (i.e. meta-models, procedure knowledge, temporal relations and knowledge acquisition). Our findings confirmed the issues among the methodologies investigated, and uncovered another issue to take into consideration in the process of building ontologies for Information Systems.