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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics School of Electronics and Computer Science Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group and Dependable Systems and Software Engineering Group Nine month progress report submitted for continuation towards a PhD Supervisor: Hugh Glaser Supervisor: Dr Les Carr Examiner: Dr Harith Alani Towards a Canonical Method to Solve Patterns of Ontology Modeling Issues by Benedicto Rodriguez December 7 th , 2006 Toward a Canonical Method to Solve Patterns of Ontology Modelling Issues 2 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON ABSTRACT Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics School of Electronics and Computer Science Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group and Dependable Systems and Software Engineering Group Nine month progress report submitted for continuation towards a PhD by Benedicto Rodriguez This report presents a brief description of the different activities carried out in the field of ontology engineering. It identifies a lack of guidelines on how to address modeling issues during the ontology conceptualization phase, in the current methodologies to build ontologies from scratch. It describes an example scenario of an ontology modeling task and it proposes a possible solution inspired by folksonomy based systems and faceted classification. This is followed by a study of the difficulties found to adapt the IEEE Learning Object Metadata (LOM) standard to model an ontology fit for purpose in a specific university curricula domain. It also gives an example of a prototype for a potential next generation semantic web application and a brief summary of the main viewpoints that will characterize such applic