Facets, Tiers and Gems: Ontology Patterns for Hypernormalisation

TL;DR

This paper introduces a new approach called hypernormalisation, combining ontology normalisation and programmatic development to improve ontology building through reusable patterns and domain-specific languages.

Contribution

It presents a novel methodology for ontology development that integrates normalisation techniques with fully programmatic approaches, enabling flexible and scalable ontology creation.

Findings

Introduces hypernormalisation as a new ontology development style.

Demonstrates how patterns facilitate scalable ontology construction.

Shows integration of normalisation with programmatic techniques enhances flexibility.

Abstract

There are many methodologies and techniques for easing the task of ontology building. Here we describe the intersection of two of these: ontology normalisation and fully programmatic ontology development. The first of these describes a standardized organisation for an ontology, with singly inherited self-standing entities, and a number of small taxonomies of refining entities. The former are described and defined in terms of the latter and used to manage the polyhierarchy of the self-standing entities. Fully programmatic development is a technique where an ontology is developed using a domain-specific language within a programming language, meaning that as well defining ontological entities, it is possible to add arbitrary patterns or new syntax within the same environment. We describe how new patterns can be used to enable a new style of ontology development that we call hypernormalisation.