Moreira Silva, ManuelLucas Soares, AntónioSimões, Dora2021-05-202021-05-202006http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/17962The development of ontologies to unify and to put into context the different concepts and terms of the sometimes rather traditional and locally coloured construction industry domains is a necessary step to avoid misinterpretations and inefficient communication. The KNOW-CONSTRUCT project, as an approach to this task, decided to re-use, as far as possible, existing ontologies, classification systems and other semantic resources in order to develop a system for the integration, management and reuse of the area specific knowledge via a common knowledge base in order to consolidate and provide access to integrated knowledge, making community emergent knowledge a significant added value.engOntologies integrationKnowledge communitiesKnowledge representationconference object