Collaborative ontology engineering: a survey <s> Dogma-Mess <s> In this paper, we explore the process of interorganizational ontology engineering. Scalable ontology engineering is hard to do in interorganizational settings where there are many pre-existing organizational ontologies and rapidly changing collaborative requirements. A complex socio-technical process of ontology alignment and meaning negotiation is therefore required. In particular, we are interested in how to increase the efficiency and relevance of this process using context dependencies between ontological elements. We describe the DOGMA-MESS methodology and system for scalable, community-grounded ontology engineering. We illustrate this methodology with examples taken from a case of interorganizational competency ontology evolution in the vocational training domain. <s> BIB001 </s> Collaborative ontology engineering: a survey <s> Dogma-Mess <s> This chapter presents a methodological framework for ontology engineering (called DOGMA), which is aimed to guide ontology builders towards building ontologies that are both highly reusable and usable, easier to build and to maintain. We survey the main foundational challenges in ontology engineering and analyse to what extent one can build an ontology independently of application requirements at hand. We discuss ontology reusability verses ontology usability and present the DOGMA approach, its philosophy and formalization, which prescribe that an ontology be built as separate domain axiomatization and application axiomatizations. While a domain axiomatization focuses on the characterization of the intended meaning (i.e. intended models) of a vocabulary at the domain level, application axiomatizations focus on the usability of this vocabulary according to certain application/usability perspectives and specify the legal models (a subset of the intended models) of the application(s)' interest. We show how specification languages (such as ORM, UML, EER, and OWL) can be effectively (re)used in ontology engineering. <s> BIB002
Dogma-Mess BIB001  is an extension of the Dogma methodology BIB002 ) toward inter-organizational support. In Dogma, an ontology consists of a base of lexons, holding conceptualizations of a domain 12 and a layer of ontological commitments. Dogma-Mess was explicitly conceived for those ontology engineering settings that involve multiple stakeholders. It distinguishes between five major phases: Formulate vision statement: The stakeholders develop a shared specification of scope and aim of the ontology.