A Framework for Manual Ontology Engineering for Management of Learning Material Repository

India is a country of diversity in language, culture and socio-economic conditions. In order to make use the cutting edge computer aided education technology in this setting, efforts have to be made for proper management of the learning materials by addressing this diversity. In this paper, we present a framework for manual ontology engineering in education domain for managing learning materials of the curriculum related requirements of school students. We identify an effective way of structuring the knowledge about education domain in a layered architecture. The layered architecture allows us to clearly demarcate the roles of topics, concepts and actual words in a multilingual setting. With the help of the constructed ontology, we provide scheme for indexing educational materials into different layers of ontology for the management of learning materials. Domain specific and personalized search interfaces based on the created index structure have also been provided.