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With the goal of speeding up the ontology development process, ontology engineers are starting to reuse as much as possible available ontologies and non-ontological resources such as classification schemes, thesauri, lexicons and folksonomies, that already have some degree of consensus. The reuse of such non-ontological resources necessarily involves their re-engineering into ontologies. Non-ontological resources are highly heterogeneous in their data model and contents: they encode different types of knowledge, and they can be modeled and implemented in different ways. In this paper we present (1) a typology for non-ontological resources, (2) a pattern based approach for re-engineering non-ontological resources into ontologies, and (3) a use case of the proposed approach.
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García-Silva, A., Gómez-Pérez, A., Suárez-Figueroa, M.C., Villazón-Terrazas, B. (2008). A Pattern Based Approach for Re-engineering Non-Ontological Resources into Ontologies. In: Domingue, J., Anutariya, C. (eds) The Semantic Web. ASWC 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5367. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89704-0_12
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