An Ontology Design Pattern of the Multidisciplinary and Complex Field of Climate Change

Abstract

This article presents the manual and collaborative construction of an ontology design pattern (a generic ontology), named OntoCLUVA, of climate change (CC) field. This pattern is built for the needs of the construction of climate change ontologies. We used this pattern for a knowledge management system (KMS) of climate change. It will allow to each module of this KMS to build its own ontology of climate change domain for its tasks consisting in discovering and adapting the ontology components.