Developing an ontology for Greek mythology
The attempts at developing an ontology for Greek mythology to fill this gap are described, which is a combination of three existing approaches.
Abstract
Purpose The primary objective of the study is to illustrate the building and developing an ontology for the heroes of the ancient Greek Mythology and religion. At present, a number of ontologies exist in different domains. However, ontologies of epics and myths are comparatively very few. To be more specific, nobody has developed such an ontology for Greek Mythology. The paper describes the attempts at developing an ontology for Greek mythology to fill this gap. Design/methodology/approach The paper follows a combination of different methodologies which is assumed to be a more effective way of developing an ontology for mythology. It has adopted motivating scenario concept from Gruninger and Fox, developing cycle from METHONTOLOGY, and the Analytico- synthetic approach from YAMO methodology and hence, it’s a combination of three existing approaches. Findings A merged methodology has been adopted for this research paper. The developed ontology was evaluated and made sure that it meets with the information ...