Enhanced Methodology for Ontology Development

The presented paper deals with building of an initial glossary of terms, which is a preparatory phase of domain ontology building. Existing methodologies suppose to develop the initial glossary of terms by an analysis of existing documents, or using expert knowledge. There is no structured process defined for this step of the ontology building. We propose to embrace experience from object oriented analysis: to describe structure, behaviour and rules valid for a domain of interest. These three descriptions represent complex and systematic view to the domain and ensure that created glossary of terms will be exhaustive. We demonstrate our method on the domain of road transport. The method is developed as an extension of well known METHONTOLOGY, but it is general enough to be acceptable for other methodologies for the ontology building too.