EVALUATING ONTOLOGICAL DECISIONS with ONTOCLEAN

摘要

The OntoClean methodology is in use in several places. OntologyWorks (www.ontologyworks.com) has designed a system that automates checking consistency of ontologies once their formal metaproper-ties have been expressed. They use the OntoClean methodology to perform a variety of commercial database integration tasks. Document Development Corporation (www.docdev.com) uses OntoClean as part of the knowledge engineering process for captur- ing and reusing knowledge assets in corporate documents such as contracts and proposals. At IBM Research, the methodology core was used in the SOALAR project to build ontologies of business engagements. At the Technical University of Madrid, OntoClean is being integrated with Methontology, a methodology for building ontologies based on software engineering principles. At the Italian National Research Council Laboratories (LADSEB-CNR and ITBM-CNR), in Pradova and Rome, OntoClean is in use in several projects including the development of an upper-level ontology based on a restructuring of WordNet, and the development of a core ontology for financial knowledge interchange.