Even though one of the main characteristics of ontologies has always been claimed to be their reusability, throughout this paper it will be shown that ontology reuse across a given domain is not a consolidated practice. We have carried out a statistical study on ontology reuse in the ontologies collected in Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV), in addition to a particular analysis of a use case. The results of the present work show that, when building an ontology, the heterogeneity between the needed conceptualization and that of available ontologies, as well as the deficiencies in some of such ontologies (concerning documentation, licensing, etc.) are important obstacles for reusing ontologies of the same domain of the ontology under development. A possible approach to lessen these problems could be the creation of communities similar to open software ones in charge of developing and maintaining ontologies.

尽管一直声称本体的主要特征之一是它们的可重用性，但在整个本文中，将显示出在给定域上的本体重用并不是统一的实践。除了对用例进行特殊分析之外，我们还对链接开放式词汇表（LOV）中收集的本体中的本体重用进行了统计研究。当前工作的结果表明，在构建本体时，所需的概念化与可用本体之间的异质性以及某些此类本体中的缺陷（关于文档，许可等）是重用的重要障碍。正在开发的本体的相同领域的本体。