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The work outlined in this critical review paper has been motivated by the need to address critical issues on keeping ontologies alive and evolving while these are shared in wide communities. It is argued that the engineering of ontologies must follow a well-defined methodology, addressing practical aspects that would allow (sometimes wide) communities of experts and ontologists to reach consensus on developments and keep the evolution of ontologies \u2018in track\u2019. In doing so, specific collaborative and iterative tool-supported tasks and phases within a complete and evaluated ontology life cycle are necessary. This way the engineered ontologies can be considered \u2018\n                    <jats:italic>shared, commonly agreed and continuously evolved \u201clive\u201d conceptualizations<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u2019 of domains of discourse. 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