Applications of ontology design patterns in the transformation of multimedia repositories
Agnieszka Ławrynowicz, Raúl Palma · 2012
Abstract. The development of ontologies from scratch is a very inefficient approach. Hence, ontology development is increasingly being conducted by reusing existing ontological and non-ontological resources as it lowers the time and cost of developing new ontologies, avoids duplicating efforts and ensures interoperability. Similarly, the emergence of ontology design patterns has facilitated the reuse of best practices in ontology engineering, improving the quality of the developed ontology. In this paper we show how different ontology design patterns along with state-of-the-art ontology engineering methodologies help during the construction of ontologies, by describing the development process of the Digital Multimedia Repositories Ontology (DMRO). We show the applicability of the developed ontology by using it as the basis for the transformation of Videolectures multimedia repository to RDF data. 1