{"id":47,"date":"2025-02-15T12:43:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T12:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkeet.com\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2025-10-30T18:25:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:25:46","slug":"ontology-engineering","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mkeet.com\/?page_id=47","title":{"rendered":"Ontology Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An introduction to ontology engineering<\/em><\/strong> is an award-winning textbook aimed at postgraduate students in computer science. The second edition was published by College Publications<\/a> in September 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is for sale as softcover hardcopy from multiple online sales points, including Amazon (.com<\/a>, .co.uk<\/a>, .de<\/a>, .au<\/a> etc.), B&N<\/a>, and others. The softcover hardcopy is supposed to cost around 32 GBP (or around 43 USD or 37 EUR), and it serves to shop around if it’s wildly off the mark. ISBN-10 848900201 and ISBN-13 978-1848900202. The digital edition (eBook in pdf or ported to Kindle)<\/a> cost around half that, at 16 GBP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main additional content, such as materials for exercises, supporting tools, and tutorials, is currently available from the academic page of the book at https:\/\/people.cs.uct.ac.za\/~mkeet\/OEbook\/<\/a> and its mirror site at http:\/\/www.meteck.org\/teaching\/OEbook\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Version 1.5 was released in February 2020 as an open educational resource. This means that the PDF is freely downloadable from the academic webpage<\/a> and there are additional resources related to the textbook at https:\/\/people.cs.uct.ac.za\/~mkeet\/OEbook\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The first edition was published with College Publications<\/a> in 2018, and is probably still for sale as softcover hardcopy through Amazon<\/a> and many other online bookstores (ISBN-10: 1848902956, ISBN-13: \u200e 978-1848902954). It’s cheaper than the second edition, but not as up-to-date, has less content, is in a smaller format, printed in B&W only, and a few sections may not be as well-written as they are in the second edition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Workbook<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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There is a workbook associated with the second edition of the textbook. It can also be used with version 1.5, except for the references to the textbook sections, which may have changed between the two editions. The workbook is an open educational resource and accessible here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The workbook contains four tutorials, two assignment descriptions, and answer to selected exercises from the second edition of the textbook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elsewhere<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The first version and v1.5 of the textbook are also available in various institutional repositories, such as OpenUCT<\/a> and the Open Textbook Archive<\/a>, and people in charge of other archives and indexes have added it to other archives as well, including, but not limited to unglue.it<\/a> (featured in the week of 13-8-2018), Open Libra<\/a>, and the EBooks Directory<\/a>. LibreText<\/a> has been converting the textbook into HTML.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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):<\/p>\n\n\n\n