Ontological Engineering approach of developing Ontology of Information Science

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Ontology has been a subject of many studies carried out in artificial intelligence (AI) and information system communities. Ontology has become an important component of the semantic web, covering a variety of knowledge domains. Although building domain ontologies still remains a big challenge with regard to its designing and implementation, there are still many areas that need to create ontologies. Information Science (IS) is one of these areas that need a unified ontology model to facilitate information access among the heterogeneous data resources and share a common understanding of the domain knowledge. The objective of this study is to develop a generic model of ontology that serves as a foundation of knowledge modelling for applications and aggregation with other ontologies to facilitate information exchanging between different systems. This model will be a metadata for a knowledge base system to be used in different purposes of interest, such as education applications to support educational needs for teachers and students and information system developers, and enhancing the index tool in libraries to facilitate access to information collections. This study describes the process of modelling the domain knowledge of Information Science IS.
The building process of the ontology of Information Science (OIS) is preceded by developing taxonomies and thesauruses of IS. This research adopts the Methontology to develop ontology of Information Science OIS. This choice of method relies on the research motivations and aims, with analysis of some development ontology methodologies and IEEE 1074-2006 standards for developing software project life cycle processes as criteria. The methodology mainly consisted of; specification, conceptualization, formalization, implementation, maintenance and evaluation. The knowledge model was formalized using Protégé to generate the ontology code. During the development process the model has been

Dr. Ahlam Sawsaa She received her PhD from University of Huddersfield 2013, and B.S and M.S degree from Benghazi university in Library and Information Science. She is serving as lecture in the Department of Library and Information Science at Benghazi University, and supervisor of many projects of graduate degrees. She is author of a book and more than seven international publication, reviewer in international conferences and journals. She is currently a research visiter at University of Huddersfield. She interested in Ontologies and semantic.