Toward principles for the design of ontologies used for knowledge sharing?

作者：Thomas Olaf Gruber · 发表于：International Journal of Human-Computer Studies · 年份：1995 · DOI：10.1006/ijhc.1995.1081 · 被引用次数：7716 · 研究领域：Semantic Web and Ontologies、Advanced Database Systems and Queries、Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies

Recent work in Artificial Intelligence (AI) is exploring the use of formal ontologies as a way of specifying content-specific agreements for the sharing and reuse of knowledge among software entities. We take an engineering perspective on the development of such ontologies. Formal ontologies are viewed as designed artifacts, formulated for specific purposes and evaluated against objective design criteria. We describe the role of ontologies in supporting knowledge sharing activities, and then present a set of criteria to guide the development of ontologies for these purposes. We show how these criteria are applied in case studies from the design of ontologies for engineering mathematics and bibliographic data. Selected design decisions are discussed, and alternative representation choices are evaluated against the design criteria.