Ontology Engineering

An introduction to ontology engineering is an award-winning textbook aimed at postgraduate students in computer science.

The main content is currently available from the academic page of the book at https://people.cs.uct.ac.za/~mkeet/OEbook/.

The latest version is v1.5, which is an open educational resource. This means that the PDF is freely downloadable from the academic webpage and there are additional resources related to the textbook as well.

Version 2 is in the pipeline, which hopefully will be released in 2025.

Version 1 was published with College Publications in 2018, and is for sale as softcover hardcopy through Amazon and many other online bookstores (ISBN-10: 1848902956, ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1848902954).

Elsewhere

The book is also available in various institutional repositories, such as OpenUCT and the Open Textbook Archive, and people in charge of other archives and indexes have added it to other archives as well, including, but not limited to unglue.it (featured in the week of 13-8-2018), Open Libra, and the EBooks Directory. LibreText has been converting the textbook into HTML.

The book or its predecessor lecture notes and/or the slides based on it [is being/was/has been/will be] used in whole or in part in the following courses/at the following universities (in alphabetical order):

  • Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
  • National Institute of Technology Patna, India
  • Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa
  • Umeå University, Sweden
  • Universidad de las Ciencias Informáticas, Cuba
  • Universität Leipzig, Germany
  • University of Cape Town, South Africa
  • University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
  • University of Liverpool, UK
  • Otto Von Guericke University, Germany
  • University of Swansea, UK
  • …
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Reviews and endorsements

I especially appreciated the way it connects the computer science content with formal logic and even ontologies as they are understood in philosophy.

— Anonymous reviewer on Amazon

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Das Buch von C. Maria Keet ist ein sehr guter Leitfaden für die Erstellung von Ontologien. Nicht nur Einführung, sondern auch praktische Hinführung, die einem wöchentlichen (studentischen) Arbeitsplan angepasst ist; inklusive Hinweise, wie man die Qualität der (eigenen) Ontologie kontrollieren kann.

— SapphireSaTi on Amazon

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