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Design patterns are a high level approach for reuse in software engineering area. The number of design patterns is rising rapidly, which makes selecting appropriate one harder task. This issue is especially clear for less experienced developers.
In this paper we present our approach to address the presented issue of managing and selecting design patterns - an experiment prototype of a new design pattern repository, based on semantic web technologies. New Ontology-Based Design Pattern Repository is currently a work in progress. This is why we point out only its potentials for improving design pattern adoption.