Developing Graduation Screen Ontology Based on the METHONTOLOGY Approach

A clearly-defined and well-structured methodology can reduce ontology development time and increase the possibility of the project success. However, there exists no mature knowledge engineering methodology for ontology developments. Nevertheless, METHONTOLOGY, known as one of the best methodologies, has been adopted in several ontology developments due to its domain-independent characteristics. In this paper, we develop the graduation screen ontology (GSO) based on the guidelines suggested by METHONTOLOGY to analyze the ontology development life cycle suggested in METHONTOLOGY and to identify the issues related to the METHONTOLOGY approach, OWL-DL, and Protege-OWL. Based on our GSO development experience, we found several drawbacks of the METHONTOLOGY approach. We also address some issues related with Protege-OWL and OWL-DL. We finally discuss contributions and practical implications of this study.