Table 1

Ontology development methodologies.

Methodology Time Development processes
Uschold and King's methodology 1995 Identify the purpose and scope of ontology→ Ontology building (ontology capture, coding, integrating existing ontology) → Evaluation → Documentation
Grüninger and Fox's Methodology 1995 Motivating Scenarios → Informal Competency Questions (CQ) → Formal Terminology → Formal CQ → Formal Axioms → Completeness Theorems
METHONTOLOGY 1997 Planning→ Specification→ Knowledge Acquisition→ Conceptualization→ Formalization→ Integration→ Implementation→ Evaluation→ Documentation→ Maintaining
Simple-Knowledge Engineering Methodology (SKEM)/Seven-Step Method 2001 Determine the domain and scope→ Consider reusing existing ontologies→Enumerate import terms→ Define the classes → Define the slots→ Define the facets of the slots→ Create instances

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