Methodology for knowledge portals development: background, foundations, experience of application, problems and prospects

The paper discusses an experience of using the methodology for the development of knowledge portals which provide systematization and integration of scientific and engineering knowledge and information resources as well as the content-based access to them. To provide a sufficiently complete and consistent representation of knowledge and information resources, their systematization and integration are performed on the basis of ontology. The suggested methodology has been successfully applied to the development of knowledge Internet portals on archaeology, computational linguistics, strength of materials and Antarctic data.