Re: Competency questions for Activity Streams

Competency questions are like use cases or requirements in software
engineering.  They serve to define the scope of an ontology at the
design stage and to evaluate if it after the design.

Glaice Kelly da Silva Quirino, Jordana Sarmenghi Salamon, Monalessa P. Barcellos:
Use of Competency Questions in Ontology Engineering: A Survey. ER 2023:
45-64
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47262-6_3

York Sure, Michael Erdmann, Jürgen Angele, Steffen Staab, Rudi Studer, Dirk Wenke:
OntoEdit: Collaborative Ontology Development for the Semantic Web. ISWC
2002: 221-235
https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48005-6_18


Cristiano Longo <cristianolongo@opendatahacklab.org> writes:

> Roughly speaking, they are questions written in natural language which should be answered by the ontology (this definition is really not precise).
>
> On 12/27/25 11:29, a wrote:
>
>  On Sat, Dec 27, 2025, 04:17 Cristiano Longo <cristianolongo@opendatahacklab.org> wrote:
>
>  Hi, I wonder if someone produced competency questions for the Activity 
>  Vocabulary. Any help is welcome.. Thanks.
>
>  What does "competency questions" mean?

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