TY - GEN A1 - Glauer, M. A1 - Schilling, Markus A1 - Stappel, M. T1 - A practical ontology development guide N2 - Knowledge representation is becoming increasingly important in view of the large amounts of data that are handled in the modern scientific landscape. Many of the domains that have most readily realised this problem and worked on potential solutions have been the domain of biochemistry. And although the developments sought here were not accompanied by philosophers, this process organically led to the development of formal and structured representations of certain domains. While the resulting structures were not the first formal ontologies, they are ones that are still in wide use to this day. These approaches have led to major advances in the organisation, structuring and communication of scientific results. Since then, a variety of other domains have tried to adapt a similar process and develop their own ontologies. However, the development of ontologies from the domain of biochemistry was the result of a years-long process that also involved a large number of errors and course corrections. One of the greatest challenges is also one of the greatest strengths of ontologies: Interoperability with other ontologies. To ensure this interoperability, ontologies must follow certain principles. In the field of biochemistry, the OBO Foundry has established itself, which offers functionalities for a rich network of ontologies from the domain, but at the same time also defines rules. The purpose of this document is to define a similar set of rules for open ontology development, but which addresses a broader domain and at the same time lowers the barrier of entry for new ontology developers. To this end, we will outline a workflow that can be used to build new ontologies more efficiently. This workflow is based not only on our own years of experience in ontology development, but also on the rules of external experts such as the OBO Foundry. KW - Ontology KW - Data integration KW - Ontologie KW - Data interoperability PY - 2024 UR - https://scientific-ontology-network.github.io/ UR - https://github.com/scientific-ontology-network/ontology-development-guide/releases/download/v0.1.0/ontology-guide.pdf SP - 1 EP - 27 PB - GitHub CY - San Francisco ET - Version 0.1 AN - OPUS4-61140 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -