A Simplified Agile Methodology for Ontology Development

In this paper we introduce SAMOD, a.k.a. Simplified Agile Methodology for Ontology Development, a novel agile methodology for the development of ontologies by means of small steps of an iterative workflow that focuses on creating well-developed and documented models starting from exemplar domain descriptions. In addition, we discuss the results of an experiment where we asked nine people (with no or limited expertise in Semantic Web technologies and Ontology Engineering) to use SAMOD for developing a small ontology.

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