Aspect OntoMaven - Aspect-Oriented Ontology Development and Configuration With OntoMaven

TL;DR

This paper introduces OntoMaven, a tool inspired by Maven and aspect-oriented programming, to improve modularity, reuse, and lifecycle management in ontology engineering projects.

Contribution

It presents a new design artifact, OntoMaven, integrating aspect-oriented ontology development with Maven-based management for distributed repositories.

Findings

Enables fine-grained, declarative configuration of ontology modules

Supports modular reuse from large remote repositories

Facilitates ontology project lifecycle management

Abstract

In agile ontology-based software engineering projects support for modular reuse of ontologies from large existing remote repositories, ontology project life cycle management, and transitive dependency management are important needs. The contribution of this paper is a new design artifact called OntoMaven combined with a unified approach to ontology modularization, aspect-oriented ontology development, which was inspired by aspect-oriented programming. OntoMaven adopts the Apache Maven-based development methodology and adapts its concepts to knowledge engineering for Maven-based ontology development and management of ontology artifacts in distributed ontology repositories. The combination with aspect-oriented ontology development allows for fine-grained, declarative configuration of ontology modules.