Ontology design parameters for aligning agri-informatics with the semantic web

Abstract

In recent years there have been many efforts in the development of bio-ontologies, where the applied life sciences can see the benefits reaped from, and hurdles observed with, such early-adopter efforts. With the plethora of resources, where should one start developing one's own domain ontology, what resources are available for reuse to speed up its development, for which purposes can the ontology be developed? We group inputs that determine effectiveness of ontology development and use into four types of parameters: purpose, ontology reuse, ways of ontology learning, and the language and reasoning services. We illustrate this for the agriculture domain by building upon experiences gained in previous and current projects. © 2009 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.