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Ontology Requirements Specification

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The goal of the ontology requirements specification activity is to state why the ontology is being built, what its intended uses are, who the end users are, and which requirements the ontology should fulfill. This chapter presents detailed methodological guidelines for specifying ontology requirements efficiently. These guidelines will help ontology engineers to capture ontology requirements and produce the ontology requirements specification document (ORSD). The ORSD will play a key role during the ontology development process because it facilitates, among other activities, (1) the search and reuse of existing knowledge resources with the aim of reengineering them into ontologies, (2) the search and reuse of ontological resources (ontologies, ontology modules, ontology statements as well as ontology design patterns), and (3) the verification of the ontology along the ontology development.

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Notes

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    http://www.ontogrid.net

  2. 2.

    http://esperonto.net/fundfinder

  3. 3.

    http://www.neon-project.org/nw/Ontology-driven_fish_stock_depletion_assessment_system

  4. 4.

    http://www.isoco.com/ontologies/mio/index.html

  5. 5.

    http://www.seemp.org

  6. 6.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-schema/

  7. 7.

    http://www.wsmo.org/wsml/wsml-syntax

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    In software engineering, functional requirements refer to the required behavior of the system, that is, the functionalities that the software system should have, while non-functional requirements refer to implicit expectations about how well the software system should work. That is, these requirements can be seen as aspects about the system or as “non-behavioral” requirements (Sommerville 2007).

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    http://cicero.uni-koblenz.de/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

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    http://www.whocc.no/atc_ddd_index/

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  1. Ontology Engineering Group, Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo sn., Boadilla del Monte, 28660, Madrid, Spain

    Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa & Asunción Gómez-Pérez

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Suárez-Figueroa, M.C., Gómez-Pérez, A. (2012). Ontology Requirements Specification. In: Suárez-Figueroa, M., Gómez-Pérez, A., Motta, E., Gangemi, A. (eds) Ontology Engineering in a Networked World. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24794-1_5

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