The current issue of Applied Ontology is a special, double issue in celebration of the completion of the journal’s tenth year of publication. The special issue is available online at http://content.iospress.com/journals/applied-ontology/10/3-4.
Earlier this year, the editors of Applied Ontology invited contributions to help document the current state of research in applied ontology and the range of challenges that the community is now addressing. Included in the current special issue are two such papers that review the state of the art in the fields of ontology modularization (Zubeida Casmod Khan and C. Maria Keet: An empirically-based framework for ontology modularization) and conceptual modeling (Michael Verdonck, Frederik Gailly, Sergio DeCesare, and Geert Poels: Ontology-driven conceptual modeling: a systematic literature mapping and review). IOS Press has awarded the authors of both these papers a prize in recognition of their contribution to the special issue.
The special issue also contains eight position papers that help to document contemporary thought in the discipline. These papers should help to clarify contemporary ideas in ontology engineering and conceptual modeling and to promote healthy debate.
An Applied Ontology scientometrics installation was built to celebrate the journal’s tenth anniversary: http://scientometrics.geog.ucsb.edu/ao/. The portal allows users to visually explore how Applied Ontology has changed and grown in the last decade. The installation is developed by the STKO Lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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