Content Ontology Design Pattern Presentation

Abstract: Ontology design patterns are used for creating quality modeling solutions for ontologies. The presentation of ontology design patterns is concerned with reusability of ontologies from a user perspective. The purpose of this research is to identify improvement areas in the presentation of content ontology design patterns. The objective is to analyze different content ontology design patterns and provide suggestions for possible changes in current templates and pattern presentation. The ontology design pattern templates were compared with existing templates of other patterns to identify improvement areas. After this, two surveys were conducted with novice users and expert ontology engineers to improve the readability and usability of content ontology design patterns from the user perspective and to discover differences in opinion while using the patterns. Based on the findings of comparison and survey results, we proposed suggestions to improve the current template and presentation of content ontology design patterns.