Application of ontology design patterns in the development of the ontologies of scientific subject domains

The paper discusses the application of ontology design patterns for the development of ontologies of scientific subject domains. Such patterns are designed to describe the solutions of typical problems arising in ontology development. They are created to facilitate the process of building ontologies and to help the developers avoid some frequent errors occurring in ontology modeling. The paper presents the ontology design patterns resulting from solving the problems that the authors have encountered in the development of ontologies for such scientific subject domains as archaeology, computational linguistics, system studies in power engineering, active seismology, etc.