Constructing City Ontology from Expert for Smart City Management

City Ontology plays an important role in smart city management for data integration, reasoning decision support etc. With these managerial domain knowledge scattered among a large number of experts, researchers face a huge challenge constructing a complete ontology for city management. This paper presents a simple yet efficient method for non-computer science experts to construct an ontology. We use a middle part that acts as a transition layer called activity model which is later merged into the city managerial ontology. We prove the effectiveness of this method by constructing a managerial ontology for two departments in Karamay's Smart City Program.