Journal of Knowledge Management, Volume 19, Issue 1, February 2015.
Purpose This article proposes a brand new ontology development methodology, called Yet Another Methodology for Ontology (YAMO) and demonstrates step by step the building of a formally defined large-scale faceted ontology for food. Design/methodology/approach YAMO is motivated by facet analysis and analytico-synthetic classification approach. The approach ensures the quality of the system, more precisely; it makes the system flexible, hospitable, extensible, sturdy, dense and complete. YAMO consists of two way approach: top-down and bottom-up. Based on YAMO, domain food, formally defined large scale ontology is designed. To design the ontology and to define the scope and boundary of the domain, a group of people were interviewed to get a practical overview, which provided more insight to the theoretical understanding of the domain. Findings The result obtained from evaluating the ontology is a very impressive one. Based on the study it was found that 94% of the user’s queries were successfully met. This shows the efficiency and effectiveness of the YAMO methodology. An evaluator opined that the ontology is very deep and exhaustive. Practical implications The authors envision is that the current work will have great implications on the ontology developers and practitioners. YAMO will allow the ontologists to construct a very deep, high quality and large-scale ontology. Originality/value This paper illustrates a brand new ontology development methodology and demonstrates how the methodology can be applied to build large-scale high quality domain ontology.
Purpose This article proposes a brand new ontology development methodology, called Yet Another Methodology for Ontology (YAMO) and demonstrates step by step the building of a formally defined large-scale faceted ontology for food. Design/methodology/approach YAMO is motivated by facet analysis and analytico-synthetic classification approach. The approach ensures the quality of the system, more precisely; it makes the system flexible, hospitable, extensible, sturdy, dense and complete. YAMO consists of two way approach: top-down and bottom-up. Based on YAMO, domain food, formally defined large scale ontology is designed. To design the ontology and to define the scope and boundary of the domain, a group of people were interviewed to get a practical overview, which provided more insight to the theoretical understanding of the domain. Findings The result obtained from evaluating the ontology is a very impressive one. Based on the study it was found that 94% of the user’s queries were successfully met. This shows the efficiency and effectiveness of the YAMO methodology. An evaluator opined that the ontology is very deep and exhaustive. Practical implications The authors envision is that the current work will have great implications on the ontology developers and practitioners. YAMO will allow the ontologists to construct a very deep, high quality and large-scale ontology. Originality/value This paper illustrates a brand new ontology development methodology and demonstrates how the methodology can be applied to build large-scale high quality domain ontology.