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The technical challenges associated with the development and deployment of ontologies have been subject to a number of research initiatives since the beginning of the nineties. By comparison the economics of ontology engineering remains a poorly exploited field, this underdevelopment having an impact on the adoption of ontology-driven technologies beyond the boundaries of the academic community. The work presented in this paper aims at the alleviation of this situation. We introduce a method for measuring the benefits of ontologies based on a multiple gap model for user information satisfaction analysis. Together with cost models such as ONTOCOM, it can be used to give an account of the economic value of ontologies.
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Bürger, T., Simperl, E. (2008). Measuring the Benefits of Ontologies. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z., Herrero, P. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2008 Workshops. OTM 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5333. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88875-8_82
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