Best Practice Principles

Based on the book Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology by Robert Arp, Barry Smith and Andrew D. Spear, MIT Press 2015, some best practice principles are derived for the OpenEnergyOntology OEO. The collection is a guideline for OEO developers and reviewers to achieve and maintain a high quality of the ontology.

Principles for Terminology

What is to consider for the choice of terms?

Principles for Definitions

What is to consider for creating definitions?
Important: Always provide all (nonroot) terms with definitions.

Principles for Taxonomy

What is to consider for the OEO structure?

Principles for Relations

What is to consider for relations?

Ontology Literature

• Arp, Robert, Barry Smith, and Andrew D Spear (July 2015). Building ontologies with basic formal ontology. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-52781-1. Publisher.
• Keet, C Maria (2020). An introduction to ontology engineering — v1.5. Cape Town, South Africa: Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town.
• The University Of Manchester - Protégé OWL Tutorial
• The University Of Manchester - Manchester Family History Advanced OWL Tutorial
• Michael DeBellis - New Protégé Pizza Tutorial