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Assessment of Ontology Development and Management Tools According to the Axioms

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Nowadays, there are more than 50 different ontology development and management tools (ODMT), since domain ontologies become used more and more often in the development of knowledge based information systems (IS). A number of authors propose their criteria to assess ODMT. However, the earlier proposed criteria of ODMT assessment concentrate on the modelling capabilities of the structure of an ontology and user interfaces mainly. In this research, we are interested in the ODMT capability of modelling axioms. Therefore, this paper presents an investigation of ODMT according to the modelling of axioms. We define necessary criteria for the assessment of ODMT and perform an evaluator case study.

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    http://protege.stanford.edu.

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    http://wordnet.princeton.edu/.

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    http://protege.stanford.edu.

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    http://dbpedia.org/.

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    http://www.ontologyportal.org/.

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    Diana Kalibatiene & Olegas Vasilecas

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  1. Fac. Mathematics & Physics, Dept. Software Engineering, Charles University Praha, Malostranske nam. 25, Praha 1, 118 00, Czech Republic

    Jaroslav Pokorny

  2. Dept. Information Technologies, Attn. Prof. Jiri Vorisek, Prague University of Economics, Nam. W. Churchilla 4, Praha, 130 67, Czech Republic

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  3. Fac. Mathematics & Physics, Charles University, Praha, Malostranske nam. 25, Praha 1, 118 00, Czech Republic

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Kalibatiene, D., Vasilecas, O. (2011). Assessment of Ontology Development and Management Tools According to the Axioms. In: Pokorny, J., et al. Information Systems Development. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9790-6_26

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