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10. Modularizing Ontologies

Author : Mathieu d’Aquin

Published in: Ontology Engineering in a Networked World

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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As large monolithic ontologies are difficult to handle and maintain, the activity of modularizing an ontology consists in identifying components (modules) of this ontology that can be considered separately while they are interlinked with other modules. The end benefit of modularizing an ontology can be, depending on the particular application or scenario, (a) to improve performance by enabling the distribution or targeted processing, (b) to facilitate the development and maintenance of the ontology by dividing it in loosely coupled, self-contained components or (c) to facilitate the reuse of parts of the ontology. In this chapter, we present a brief introduction to the field of ontology modularization. We detail the approach taken as a guideline to modularize existing ontologies and the tools available in order to carry out this activity.

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Title: Modularizing Ontologies
Author: Mathieu d’Aquin
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Book: Ontology Engineering in a Networked World
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-24793-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-642-24794-1

Copyright Year: 2012
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24794-1_10

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