1 towards a mining equipment ontology

Comprehensive, consistent and standardized definition of terms in a specific area are crucial for ensuring interoperability among IT applications related to this area. This goal can be achieved in developing central terminological resources in the form of thesauruses or ontologies, which can then be used for deriving terminology in specific sub-fields. In this paper we describe how RudOnto, a terminological resource for mining engineering developed at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Mining and Geology, can be used for generating a mining equipment ontology. RudOnto is an integral part of a specialized mining engineering information system, which features functionalities for management and maintaining of RudOnto, as well as a wizard for exporting subsets of its concepts to several specific formats, including the web ontology language OWL.