Requirements for a Knowledge Management Tool in Ontology-Based System Development

On Friday, 4 July 2025 Miroslav Blaško held an Open Mic session with the topic "Requirements for a Knowledge Management Tool in Ontology-Based System Development". Video and presentation included.

Abstract

The presentation outlined the current tool stack used by KBSS for knowledge management in ontology-based system development, which depends heavily on input from domain experts. The primary tools — TermIt, Ontographer, and Protégé — are used by both domain experts and ontology engineers to build UFO-based [1] ontologies. Case studies in aircraft maintenance and reliability modeling highlighted challenges in knowledge extraction and formalization. Key use cases include extracting concepts and relations from documents, exploring knowledge within ontologies, formalizing tabular data, and rapid prototyping of digital forms. Several limitations of the existing tools were identified:

• lack of support for custom IRIs across tools
• poor synchronization between models of different tools
• limited multilingual support within vocabularies
• weak capabilities for searching and exploring developed ontologies

The presentation slides are available at this link.

Further reading:

• [1] Guizzardi, Giancarlo, et al. “UFO: Unified foundational ontology.” Applied ontology 17.1 (2022): 167-210, online at link