Reusable and shareable Knowledge Bases: A European Perspective

Large amounts of knowledge are available in many knowledge bases for a variety of applications. This knowledge is however, not reusable since it is application specific. This paper discusses the problem of making knowledge shareable over applications and resuing it. Three principles are formulated that can for a basis for a methodology for designing sharable knowledge bases. The separation of domain and control knowledge, the explication of meta-models of the domain knowledge (ontologies), and the distinction between ontologies that submit to different classes of commitments are described as ways of achieving sharable and reusable knowledge bases.

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