Developing an ontology for the retrieval of XML documents: a comparative evaluation of existing methodologies

The paper discusses a framework for evaluating and comparing methodologies for ontology development and its application to the evaluation of three existing methodologies. The framework is characterised by a domain-independent step and by an application-driven step. It has been adopted to analyse and compare three methodologies, the “Ontology Development 101” methodology, the “Unified Methodology” and EXPLODE, in respect to the analysis, design, verification and implementation of an ontology for content-based retrieval of XML documents.