A Workflow Management System for Ontology Engineering

ABsTrAcT The Semantic Web approach based on the ontological representation of knowledge domains seems very useful for improving document management practices, the formal and machine-mediated communication among people and work team and supports knowledge based productive processes. The effectiveness of a semantic information management system is set by the quality of the ontology. The development of ontologies requires experts on the application domain and on the technical issues as representation formalism, languages, and tools. In this chapter a methodology for ontology developing is presented. It is structured in six phases (feasibility study, expliciting of the knowledge base, logic modelling, implementation, BLOCKINtest, BLOCKINextension, BLOCKINand BLOCKINmaintaining) BLOCKINand BLOCKINhighlights BLOCKINthe BLOCKINflow BLOCKINof BLOCKINinformation BLOCKINamong BLOCKINphases and activities, the external variables required for completing the project, the human and structural re