Ontology Design Methodology?
ISO TR 9007 “Onion Model” (1982 & 1990)
- “ontology” avant la lettre
layered: universe, domain(s), application(s), …
domain & application ontologies: plug into “standard” lexicon or ontology
- advantage: insulates e.g. encodings of problem instance from “common” lexicon
- hard: problems of consistency under non-monotonicity!