Applying Ontology Modularization for Corporate Ontology Engineering

As an innovative approach for developing and maintaining continuously evolving ontologies in corporate context the Corporate Ontology Lifecycle Method- ology aims at providing an intuitive understanding of rising costs per iteration. In this regard having a close look at ontology partitioning techniques as well as module extraction approaches is very promising, because modular reuse of ontologies as well as ontology composition of building blocks have a reducing impact on costs. In this paper we are discussing the modularization aspects of the Corporate Ontology Life- cycle Methodology and provide a first approach for applying ontology modularization techniques in corporate contexts.