A list of background reading on developing good ontologies

I’m organising a half-day tutorial entitled “Good ontologies and how to develop them” at ISWC 2026 in Bari, Italy, on 25 or 26 October 2026 (you can still register for it). The accompanying tutorial page lists a selection of key references, but there are obviously more papers an ontology developer can explore to improve on the breadth and depth of their knapsack of knowledge and tried and tested toolbox. I’ve started loosely categorising the papers that present methods, tools, and techniques that improve on the quality of how knowledge is represented, and most of them are evaluated and shown to be beneficial, too. Part 1 below is the main list of methods and techniques and Part 2 is a bonus of sorts. It’s still an incomplete list and I have a queue of papers I’m planning to read through, so the list may be updated later. If you know of a method or technique that has been shown to improve the actual modelling and could fit in Part 1, feel free to leave it in the post’s comments, send…