Recommended Engineering PRactices for Ontologies

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Authors

The REPRO Handbook is the result of a shared contribution of the following authors:

• Roos Bakker

• Michael van Bekkum

• Cornelis Bouter

• Paul Brandt

• Linda Oosterheert

• Dena Tahvildari

• Robin de Veer

Editor: Paul Brandt

This Handbook has been produced by the Netherlands Organisation for applied scientific research TNO, with its registered office in Delft, the Netherlands, with its principal place of business in The Hague, the Netherlands and registered with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce under number 27376655. The REPRO Handbook is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC-BY-SA-4.0), and can be reused in accordance to the license.

Status of this document

The REPRO Handbook is work in progress and therefore not all of its parts have been elaborated. Still, we increased its major version to 1, indicating that in our perspective the REPRO Handbook carries sufficient information to engineer an ontology in a structured, principled way.

The following subjects that are still missing in large are part of Part 1, the method itself, whereas Part 2, the Best Practices will continuously develop:

• Preparatory phase

  • Purpose & intended use

  • Motivating business scenarios

  • Application requirements

  • Test definitions

• Conceptual phase:

  • Test Case Definitions

  • Query & test data formalisation

  • Ontology verification

• Computational phase

• Ontology Publication

Release history

V1.0.0 - 2021-03-23

Process review comments

1.0.0 Beta - 2021-01-07

Integrated all separate and corrected branches.

Awaiting response from selected authors

1.0.0 Alpha - 2020-12-08

Under review

1. First release, under review.

2. Finalising Introduction,

3. Conceptual phase (Part I Ch. 1-3),

4. Registration of Best Practices as have been discussed (Part III).

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• Why ontology (empty)

0.3.1 - 2020-10-06

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• Initiation and development.