Usage scenarios and goals for ontology definition metamodel by Hart, Lewis, Emery, Patrick, Colomb, Robert, Raymond, Kerry, Chang, Dan, Ye, Yiming, Kendall, Elisa, Dutra, Mark

“…This paper contains a taxonomy of the uses of ontologies, intended as motivation for the Ontology Definition Metamodel development effort by the Object Management Group. It describes several usage scenarios for ontologies and proposes example applications for use in these scenarios. …”