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evaluating ontologies. e classical “skeletal” model (Uschold and King, 1995)
presents a framework for designing and evaluating an ontology:
◾ Identifying purpose and scope
◾ Building the ontology
◾ Capturing the ontology
◾ Coding the ontology
◾ Integrating existing ontology
◾ Evaluation
◾ Documentation
Uschold et al. (1996; 1998) further modied the approach by adding six more
steps:
Scoping (brainstorming to produce all potentially relevant terms and phrases;
grouping terms into work areas)
◾ Producing denitions (deciding next steps)
◾ Determining meta-ontology
◾ Addressing each work area ind ...