Ontology design patterns: Improving findability and composition

Abstract

Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs) are intended to guide non-experts in performing ontology engineering tasks successfully. While being the topic of significant research efforts, the uptake of these ideas outside the academic community is limited. This paper summarises issues preventing broader adoption of Ontology Design Patterns among practitioners, with an emphasis on finding and composing such patterns, and presents early results of work aiming to overcome these issues.