Developing ontologies in OWL: An observational study
Martin Džbor, Enrico Motta, Carlos Buil, Jose Manuel Gomez, Olaf Göerlitz, Holger Lewen · Open Research Online (The Open University) · 2006
As is known in the human-computer interaction (HCI) domain, interactions involve the user, the technology, and the ways they work together. We expand these notions to human-ontology interaction with the aim to investigate how users interact with the networked ontologies in a realistic ontology lifecycle. In this paper, we describe a user study that we have carried out in order to improve our understanding of the level of support provided by current ontology engineering tools in the context envisaged by the NeOn project. That is, in a scenario when ontology engineers are developing complex ontologies by reuse, i.e., by integrating existing semantic resources