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merging and/or reengineering of ontologies or ontology modules. In the seventh one, the
ontology is built by reusing ontology design patterns. Scenarios 8 and 9 focus on restructuring
and localizing ontologies, respectively.
Along with the methodology, the NeOn toolkit has been developed. It supports the methodology
activities.
Finally, the prescriptive tasks to carry out the ontology requirements specification are improved in
this approach, compared with other methodologies.
Figure 4: The nine scenarios in the NeOn Methodology. Source: Gómez-Pérez and Suárez-Figueroa
(2009)
Although the goal of this paper is to show the first steps in the specification phase –carried out in the
scenario 1–, in section 6 is explained the lifecycle planned for the PKO ontology.
5. Ontological support for the IT competences of IE
This section aims to obtain the set of the competency questions and their respective answers to
support the PKO ontology, derived from the need of formalizing the IT competences of IE inside a
business consultancy process, which takes place into a software company. This business consultancy
process is executed each time a business client of the software company requires to buy one of the
systems offered in its product portfolio.
In this execution of PKO, seven experts belonging to two Cuban software firms and to the Cuban
National Commission of IE were involved. Data concerning their expertises and provenances is
shown in Figure 5.
As it is suggested in NeOn Methodology, the first steps are the definition of the intended users and
uses of the PKO ontology. Tables 1 and 2 show the planned users and uses defined for the PKO
ontology during the first iteration of its lifecycle.
Then, the competency questions technique is applied. In order to adopt this technique a bottom-up
approach is followed according to the conceptual model in Figure 1. The answers of the competency
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