Supporting domain ontology through a metamodel: a disaster management case study

• Main Author: Othman, S. H.
• Format: Book Section
• Published: IGI Global 2013
• Subjects: GE Environmental Sciences
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/74687/; https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84945136727&doi=10.4018%2f978-1-4666-4707-7.ch050&partnerID=40&md5=f5d9a2e125bd99c88f43c6ae8c9dc7fd

A metamodel is a model that has the ability to create the languages of many domain models. Domain models are conceptual models of a domain under study and contain all the entities, attributes, relationships, and constraints of the domain. As the artifact of a metamodeling technique, a metamodel could generalize most of the concepts used in existing domain models by unifying the views and structuring the language of the domain. In relation to ontology, the creation of a metamodel could assist in understanding, structuring, and analyzing the ontology. Other than its potential to engineer new ontology and re-engineer existing ontology, a metamodel can also be used to facilitate communication among communities regarding the ontology. The authors present how a metamodel can structure and manage knowledge of a domain it models. Through the Disaster Management Metamodel, they create a language for the disaster management domain.