%0 Book Section
%1 garciasilva2008pattern
%A García-Silva, Andrés
%A Gómez-Pérez, Asunción
%A Suárez-Figueroa, Mari
%A Villazón-Terrazas, Boris
%D 2008
%J The Semantic Web
%K ol_web2.0 ontology_learning toread toread_dbe widely_related
%P 167--181
%T A Pattern Based Approach for Re-engineering Non-Ontological Resources into Ontologies
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89704-0\_12
%X With the goal of speeding up the ontology development process, ontology engineers are starting to reuse as much as possible available ontologies and non-ontological resources such as classification schemes, thesauri, lexicons and folksonomies, that already have some degree of consensus. The reuse of such non-ontological resources necessarily involves their re-engineering into ontologies. Non-ontological resources are highly heterogeneous in their data model and contents: they encode different types of knowledge, and they can be modeled and implemented in different ways. In this paper we present (1) a typology for non-ontological resources, (2) a pattern based approach for re-engineering non-ontological resources into ontologies, and (3) a use case of the proposed approach.