Ontologies, Reuse and Domain Analysis

Ontology engineering is rapidly becoming an important discipline for the development of the semantic web. For many ontology applications, standard systems analysis methodology is an appropriate way to approach the systematic design of the ontology. For other applications, however, a domain analysis approach is more suited. This paper examines the sorts of applications that could benefit from a domain analysis approach, and provides suggestions about how to incorporate domain analysis methods into ontology engineering discipline.