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Advances in Ontology Design and Patterns

Author : K. Hammar
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 1614998264
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (149 download)

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Book Synopsis Advances in Ontology Design and Patterns by : K. Hammar

Download or read book Advances in Ontology Design and Patterns written by K. Hammar and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2017-12-27 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of patterns in the context of ontology engineering for the semantic web was pioneered more than a decade ago by Blomqvist, Sandkuhl and Gangemi. Since then, this line of research has flourished and led to the development of ontology design patterns, knowledge patterns, and linked data patterns: the patterns as they are known by ontology designers, knowledge engineers, and linked data publishers, respectively. A key characteristic of those patterns is that they are modular and reusable solutions to recurrent problems in ontology engineering and linked data publishing. This book contains recent contributions which advance the state of the art on theory and use of ontology design patterns. The papers collected in this book cover a range of topics, from a method to instantiate content patterns, a proposal on how to document a content pattern, to a number of patterns emerging in ontology modeling in various situations.

Advances in Pattern-Based Ontology Engineering

Author : E. Blomqvist
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 1643681753
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (436 download)

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Book Synopsis Advances in Pattern-Based Ontology Engineering by : E. Blomqvist

Download or read book Advances in Pattern-Based Ontology Engineering written by E. Blomqvist and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ontologies are the corner stone of data modeling and knowledge representation, and engineering an ontology is a complex task in which domain knowledge, ontological accuracy and computational properties need to be carefully balanced. As with any engineering task, the identification and documentation of common patterns is important, and Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs) provide ontology designers with a strong connection to requirements and a better communication of their semantic content and intent. This book, Advances in Pattern-Based Ontology Engineering, contains 23 extended versions of selected papers presented at the annual Workshop on Ontology Design and Patterns (WOP) between 2017 and 2020. This yearly event, which attracts a large number of researchers and professionals in the field of ontology engineering and ontology design patterns, covers issues related to quality aspects of ontology engineering and ODPs for data and knowledge representation, and is usually co-located with the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), apart from WOP 2020, which was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Topics covered by the papers collected here focus on recent advances in ontology design and patterns, and range from a method to instantiate content patterns, through a proposal on how to document a content pattern, to a number of patterns emerging in ontology modeling in various situations and applications. The book provides an overview of important advances in ontology engineering and ontology design patterns, and will be of interest to all those working in the field.

Ontology Engineering with Ontology Design Patterns: Foundations and Applications

Author : P. Hitzler
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 1614996768
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (149 download)

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Book Synopsis Ontology Engineering with Ontology Design Patterns: Foundations and Applications by : P. Hitzler

Download or read book Ontology Engineering with Ontology Design Patterns: Foundations and Applications written by P. Hitzler and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of ontologies for data and knowledge organization has become ubiquitous in many data-intensive and knowledge-driven application areas, in science, industry, and the humanities. At the same time, ontology engineering best practices continue to evolve. In particular, modular ontology modeling based on ontology design patterns is establishing itself as an approach for creating versatile and extendable ontologies for data management and integration. This book is the very first comprehensive treatment of Ontology Engineering with Ontology Design Patterns. It contains both advanced and introductory material accessible for readers with only a minimal background in ontology modeling. Some introductory material is written in the style of tutorials, and specific chapters are devoted to examples and to applications. Other chapters convey the state of the art in research regarding ontology design patterns. The editors and the contributing authors include the leading contributors to the development of ontology-design-pattern-driven ontology engineering.

Content Ontology Design Patterns: Qualities, Methods, and Tools

Author : Karl Hammar
Publisher : Linköping University Electronic Press
ISBN 13 : 917685454X
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (768 download)

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Book Synopsis Content Ontology Design Patterns: Qualities, Methods, and Tools by : Karl Hammar

Download or read book Content Ontology Design Patterns: Qualities, Methods, and Tools written by Karl Hammar and published by Linköping University Electronic Press. This book was released on 2017-09-06 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ontologies are formal knowledge models that describe concepts and relationships and enable data integration, information search, and reasoning. Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs) are reusable solutions intended to simplify ontology development and support the use of semantic technologies by ontology engineers. ODPs document and package good modelling practices for reuse, ideally enabling inexperienced ontologists to construct high-quality ontologies. Although ODPs are already used for development, there are still remaining challenges that have not been addressed in the literature. These research gaps include a lack of knowledge about (1) which ODP features are important for ontology engineering, (2) less experienced developers' preferences and barriers for employing ODP tooling, and (3) the suitability of the eXtreme Design (XD) ODP usage methodology in non-academic contexts. This dissertation aims to close these gaps by combining quantitative and qualitative methods, primarily based on five ontology engineering projects involving inexperienced ontologists. A series of ontology engineering workshops and surveys provided data about developer preferences regarding ODP features, ODP usage methodology, and ODP tooling needs. Other data sources are ontologies and ODPs published on the web, which have been studied in detail. To evaluate tooling improvements, experimental approaches provide data from comparison of new tools and techniques against established alternatives. The analysis of the gathered data resulted in a set of measurable quality indicators that cover aspects of ODP documentation, formal representation or axiomatisation, and usage by ontologists. These indicators highlight quality trade-offs: for instance, between ODP Learnability and Reusability, or between Functional Suitability and Performance Efficiency. Furthermore, the results demonstrate a need for ODP tools that support three novel property specialisation strategies, and highlight the preference of inexperienced developers for template-based ODP instantiation---neither of which are supported in prior tooling. The studies also resulted in improvements to ODP search engines based on ODP-specific attributes. Finally, the analysis shows that XD should include guidance for the developer roles and responsibilities in ontology engineering projects, suggestions on how to reuse existing ontology resources, and approaches for adapting XD to project-specific contexts.

Advances in Modular Ontology Engineering

Author : Cogan Matthew Shimizu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Advances in Modular Ontology Engineering written by Cogan Matthew Shimizu and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modular ontology engineering is a methodology for producing highly reusable knowledge graph schema. Over the course of this dissertation, we outline a number of contributions that have improved the process to what we see today. These contributions fall within four categories: conveying meaning through schema diagrams, the composition of a modular ontology, the modular ontology engineering methodology, and modular graphical modeling. First, we created an improved method and tool for generating schema diagrams similar to those manually generated by humans and show that most of OWL, as it is used in real world ontologies, are expressible in this format. Next, we examined and improved the ontology design pattern development process. This was accomplished through the development of both patterns and modules, extensions to the ontology design pattern representation language, and a tool that significantly improves the usability of these annotations. This work culminated in MODL: a modular ontology design library, which is a distributable set of curated, well-documented ODPs, both novel and drawn from the ontology design pattern portal. These advances were combined, and building upon the state of the art, to create the Comprehensive Modular Ontology Design IDE (CoModIDE), which is a plugin for the industry-standard ontology editor, Protégé. Finally, as a culmination of the tool and the methodology, we evaluated CoModIDE, where it was shown to significantly improve outcomes for experienced and new ontology developers when developing modular ontologies. Altogether, these research topics, resulted in a methodology, that when executed, produced actually reusable, extendable, and adaptable ontologies.

Empirical Ontology Design Patterns

Author : V.A. Carriero
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 1643684795
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book Empirical Ontology Design Patterns written by V.A. Carriero and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2024-01-26 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, knowledge graphs (KGs) and ontologies have been widely adopted for modeling many kinds of domain. They are frequently released openly, something which benefits those who are starting new projects, because it offers them a wide choice of ontology reuse and the possibility to link to existing data. Understanding the content of an ontology or a knowledge graph is far from straightforward, however, and existing methods address this issue only partially, while exploring and comparing multiple ontologies can be a tedious manual task. This book, Empirical Ontology Design Patterns, starts from the premise that identifying the Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs) used in an ontology or a knowledge graph will go some way to addressing this problem. Its main focus is to provide tools which will effectively support the task of automatically identifying ODPs in existing ontologies and knowledge graphs. The book analyses the role of ODPs in ontology engineering, placing this analysis in the wider context of existing approaches to ontology reuse and implementation. It introduces a novel method for extracting empirical ontology design patterns (EODPs) from ontologies, and another for extracting EODPs from knowledge graphs whose schemas are implicit. Both methods are applied to ontologies and knowledge graphs frequently adopted and reused, such as Wikidata. The book also offers an ontology which can be used as a basis for annotating ODPs in ontologies and knowledge graphs, whether manually or automatically. The book will be of interest to all those whose work involves the use or reuse of ontologies and knowledge graphs.

Applications and Practices in Ontology Design, Extraction, and Reasoning

Author : G. Cota
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 1643681435
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book Applications and Practices in Ontology Design, Extraction, and Reasoning written by G. Cota and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2020-12-02 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Semantic Web technologies enable people to create data stores on the Web, build vocabularies, and write rules for handling data. They have been in use for several years now, and knowledge extraction and knowledge discovery are two key aspects investigated in a number of research fields which can potentially benefit from the application of semantic web technologies, and specifically from the development and reuse of ontologies. This book, Applications and Practices in Ontology Design, Extraction, and Reasoning, has as its main goal the provision of an overview of application fields for semantic web technologies. In particular, it investigates how state-of-the-art formal languages, models, methods, and applications of semantic web technologies reframe research questions and approaches in a number of research fields. The book also aims to showcase practical tools and background knowledge for the building and querying of ontologies. The first part of the book presents the state-of-the-art of ontology design, applications and practices in a number of communities, and in doing so it provides an overview of the latest approaches and techniques for building and reusing ontologies according to domain-dependent and independent requirements. Once the data is represented according to ontologies, it is important to be able to query and reason about them, also in the presence of uncertainty, vagueness and probabilities. The second part of the book covers some of the latest advances in the fields of ontology, semantics and reasoning, without losing sight of the book’s practical goals.

Ontology Representation

Author : Rinke Hoekstra
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 1607500132
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Ontology Representation written by Rinke Hoekstra and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on author's thesis from the Dutch Research School for Information and Knowledge Systems.

Formalization of Design Patterns by Means of Ontologies

Author : Holger Kampffmeyer
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656998728
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (569 download)

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Book Synopsis Formalization of Design Patterns by Means of Ontologies by : Holger Kampffmeyer

Download or read book Formalization of Design Patterns by Means of Ontologies written by Holger Kampffmeyer and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diploma Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject Computer Science - Software, grade: 1, Dresden Technical University, language: English, abstract: Design patterns have proven to be important building blocks and means of reuse in software design. However, the mere number of available design patterns complicates the decision-making which design pattern to choose and demands tools assisting in this process. We hence propose a knowledge-based formal representation of design patterns, a representation that is accessible by tools. Existing approaches to formalizing design patterns generally cover solely the formal description of the structure of design patterns. However, an important part of a design pattern description is the intent section, because the intent describes what the design pattern does and which design problems a pattern addresses. In this work, we develop a novel approach of formalizing design patterns by their intent. The formal representation is based on OWL, the web ontology language. The developed ontology can serve as support for the decision-making of choosing the right design pattern. We furthermore develop a tool that uses the ontology as a knowledge-base. The tool allows the user to visually describe design problems and gives suggestions of design patterns that solve a given design problem.

Ontology Theory, Management and Design: Advanced Tools and Models

Author : Gargouri, Faiez
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1615208607
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (152 download)

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Book Synopsis Ontology Theory, Management and Design: Advanced Tools and Models by : Gargouri, Faiez

Download or read book Ontology Theory, Management and Design: Advanced Tools and Models written by Gargouri, Faiez and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The focus of this book is on information and communication sciences, computer science, and artificial intelligence and provides readers with access to the latest knowledge related to design, modeling and implementation of ontologies"--Provided by publisher.

Perspectives on Ontology Learning

Author : J. Lehmann
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 1614993793
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (149 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Ontology Learning written by J. Lehmann and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perspectives on Ontology Learning brings together researchers and practitioners from different communities − natural language processing, machine learning, and the semantic web − in order to give an interdisciplinary overview of recent advances in ontology learning. Starting with a comprehensive introduction to the theoretical foundations of ontology learning methods, the edited volume presents the state-of-the-start in automated knowledge acquisition and maintenance. It outlines future challenges in this area with a special focus on technologies suitable for pushing the boundaries beyond the creation of simple taxonomical structures, as well as on problems specifically related to knowledge modeling and representation using the Web Ontology Language. Perspectives on Ontology Learning is designed for researchers in the field of semantic technologies and developers of knowledge-based applications. It covers various aspects of ontology learning including ontology quality, user interaction, scalability, knowledge acquisition from heterogeneous sources, as well as the integration with ontology engineering methodologies.

Ontology Design Patterns with Applications to Software Measurement

Author : Mazen Salem Alzyoud
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (946 download)

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Download or read book Ontology Design Patterns with Applications to Software Measurement written by Mazen Salem Alzyoud and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ontologies are a cornerstone of the semantic web. Ontologies are helpful in sharing and understanding domain concepts, and they also enable reusability of domain knowledge. Furthermore, ontologies enable logical inferencing by using existing logic reasoning mechanisms. This inferencing may be used to discover new knowledge and to check and remove inconsistent content. Ontology design is a crucial research area for semantic technologies. Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs) aim to support the process of ontology engineering, and may also be used to improve the existing ontologies. We design a procedure to help in creating content ontology design patterns, and we use this procedure to create new content ontology design patterns for Course and for Professor in the University/Academy domain, which work as a generic cases for developing ontology design patterns. Furthermore, we promote the process of reusability, by developing recommended guidelines for how to select ontology design patterns. Ontologies are usually used to organize information about a domain. We want to extend the use of ontologies in the area of ontology reasoning, so that ontologies can be effectively used in organizing and directing processes. By using axioms, ontology reasoning can play a key role in answering queries. Also, the reasoning checks the consistency and finds the logical contradictions. We take product quality metrics in the software measurement domain as an example to create a correct and consistent ontology, which may be used to improve the interaction between metrics in the software development process. Architectural patterns describe how to organize an ontology. These types of patterns can be used in the conceptual modeling phase and at the beginning of the ontology design phase. We introduce a new architectural ontology design pattern to characterize the overall structure of a measurement program ontology in the software measurement domain, which may be used to implement an effective software measurement program for use during software development.

Ontological Engineering

Author : Asunción Gómez-Pérez
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1852338407
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (523 download)

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Book Synopsis Ontological Engineering by : Asunción Gómez-Pérez

Download or read book Ontological Engineering written by Asunción Gómez-Pérez and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ontological Engineering refers to the set of activities that concern the ontology development process, the ontology life cycle, the methods and methodologies for building ontologies, and the tool suites and languages that support them. During the last decade, increasing attention has been focused on ontologies and Ontological Engineering. Ontologies are now widely used in Knowledge Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science; in applications related to knowledge management, natural language processing, e-commerce, intelligent integration information, information retrieval, integration of databases, b- informatics, and education; and in new emerging fields like the Semantic Web. Primary goals of this book are to acquaint students, researchers and developers of information systems with the basic concepts and major issues of Ontological Engineering, as well as to make ontologies more understandable to those computer science engineers that integrate ontologies into their information systems. We have paid special attention to the influence that ontologies have on the Semantic Web. Pointers to the Semantic Web appear in all the chapters, but specially in the chapter on ontology languages and tools.

Ontology Engineering in a Networked World

Author : Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642247946
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Book Synopsis Ontology Engineering in a Networked World by : Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa

Download or read book Ontology Engineering in a Networked World written by Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-03-23 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Semantic Web is characterized by the existence of a very large number of distributed semantic resources, which together define a network of ontologies. These ontologies in turn are interlinked through a variety of different meta-relationships such as versioning, inclusion, and many more. This scenario is radically different from the relatively narrow contexts in which ontologies have been traditionally developed and applied, and thus calls for new methods and tools to effectively support the development of novel network-oriented semantic applications. This book by Suárez-Figueroa et al. provides the necessary methodological and technological support for the development and use of ontology networks, which ontology developers need in this distributed environment. After an introduction, in its second part the authors describe the NeOn Methodology framework. The book’s third part details the key activities relevant to the ontology engineering life cycle. For each activity, a general introduction, methodological guidelines, and practical examples are provided. The fourth part then presents a detailed overview of the NeOn Toolkit and its plug-ins. Lastly, case studies from the pharmaceutical and the fishery domain round out the work. The book primarily addresses two main audiences: students (and their lecturers) who need a textbook for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses on ontology engineering, and practitioners who need to develop ontologies in particular or Semantic Web-based applications in general. Its educational value is maximized by its structured approach to explaining guidelines and combining them with case studies and numerous examples. The description of the open source NeOn Toolkit provides an additional asset, as it allows readers to easily evaluate and apply the ideas presented.

Ontology Learning for the Semantic Web

Author : Alexander Maedche
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461509254
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)

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Book Synopsis Ontology Learning for the Semantic Web by : Alexander Maedche

Download or read book Ontology Learning for the Semantic Web written by Alexander Maedche and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ontology Learning for the Semantic Web explores techniques for applying knowledge discovery techniques to different web data sources (such as HTML documents, dictionaries, etc.), in order to support the task of engineering and maintaining ontologies. The approach of ontology learning proposed in Ontology Learning for the Semantic Web includes a number of complementary disciplines that feed in different types of unstructured and semi-structured data. This data is necessary in order to support a semi-automatic ontology engineering process. Ontology Learning for the Semantic Web is designed for researchers and developers of semantic web applications. It also serves as an excellent supplemental reference to advanced level courses in ontologies and the semantic web.

Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Modern Education Delivery

Author : Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A., Mehdi
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1522573666
Total Pages : 1163 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (225 download)

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Book Synopsis Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Modern Education Delivery by : Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A., Mehdi

Download or read book Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Modern Education Delivery written by Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A., Mehdi and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 1163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent innovations and new technologies in education have altered the way teachers approach instruction and learning and can provide countless advantages. The pedagogical value of specific technology tools and the cumulative effects of technology exposure on student learning over time are two areas that need to be explored to better determine the improvements needed in the modern classroom. Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Modern Education Delivery provides emerging research on educational models in the continually improving classroom. While highlighting the challenges facing modern in-service and pre-service teachers when educating students, readers will learn information on new methods in curriculum development, instructional design, and learning assessments to implement within their classrooms. This book is a vital resource for pre-service and in-service teachers, teacher education professionals, higher education administrative professionals, and researchers interested in new curriculum development.

An Introduction to Ontology Engineering

Author : C. Maria Keet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848902954
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Ontology Engineering written by C. Maria Keet and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-07 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Introduction to Ontology Engineering introduces the student to a comprehensive overview of ontology engineering, and offers hands-on experience that illustrate the theory. The topics covered include: logic foundations for ontologies with languages and automated reasoning, developing good ontologies with methods and methodologies, the top-down approach with foundational ontologies, and the bottomup approach to extract content from legacy material, and a selection of advanced topics that includes Ontology-Based Data Access, the interaction between ontologies and natural languages, and advanced modelling with fuzzy and temporal ontologies. Each chapter contains review questions and exercises, and descriptions of two group assignments are provided as well. The textbook is aimed at advanced undergraduate/postgraduate level in computer science and could fi t a semester course in ontology engineering or a 2-week intensive course. Domain experts and philosophers may fi nd a subset of the chapters of interest, or work through the chapters in a different order. Maria Keet is an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town, South Africa. She received her PhD in Computer Science in 2008 at the KRDB Research Centre, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. Her research focus is on knowledge engineering with ontologies and Ontology, and their interaction with natural language and conceptual data modelling, which has resulted in over 100 peer-reviewed publications. She has developed and taught multiple courses on ontology engineering and related courses at various universities since 2009.