The African wildlife ontology tutorial ontologies.

Journal: Journal of biomedical semantics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Most tutorial ontologies focus on illustrating one aspect of ontology development, notably language features and automated reasoners, but ignore ontology development factors, such as emergent modelling guidelines and ontological principles. Yet, novices replicate examples from the exercise they carry out. Not providing good examples holistically causes the propagation of sub-optimal ontology development, which may negatively affect the quality of a real domain ontology.

Authors

  • C Maria Keet
    Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town, 18 University Avenue, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa. mkeet@cs.uct.ac.za.