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BORO: mining ontologies from legacy systems
BORO is an approach to developing ontological or semantic models for large complex operational applications that consists of a top ontology and a process for constructing the ontology. It was originally developed as a method for mining ontologies from multiple legacy systems – as the first stage in an architectural transformation [1] or software modernization. It has also been used to enable semantic interoperability between legacy systems