@inproceedings{75f57de343c6463aa778a13ac60cd45f,
title = "The SWO Project: A case study of applying Agile Ontology Engineering methods in community driven ontologies",
abstract = "The Software Ontology Project (SWO) is a community effort to build an ontology that models software used in the generation and analysis of data for curation and preservation purposes in areas such as biomedicine. In community driven efforts, requirements are elicited from the members of these communities to help ensure the ontology is fit for purpose. This requires methods which are able to engage with users with a wide range of expertise, allow close collaboration between developers and users and that are able to respond rapidly to changing knowledge. We describe an Agile Ontology Engineering method for developing ontologies, adapted from modern Agile software engineering methods. The approach was applied within the SWO project and demonstrated promising results in engaging a diverse set of community representatives and an objective measure of ontology success, of much relevance to the active community of bio-ontology developers and users.",
author = "Maria Copeland and Andy Brown and Helen Parkinson and Robert Stevens and James Malone",
year = "2012",
language = "English",
volume = "897",
series = "CEUR Workshop Proceedings - KR-MED: ICBO'12",
publisher = "RWTH Aachen University",
booktitle = "CEUR Workshop Proceedings|CEUR Workshop Proc.",
address = "Germany",
note = "3rd International Conference on Biomedical Ontology 2012, ICBO 2012 ; Conference date: 01-07-2012",
}