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Parents of infants in NICU are facing challenges in the lack of information or in understanding it, in addition to their negative feeling in this stressful experience. One way to support parents is to develop an automatic system that generates a clear and concise summary about infant progress. In order for this system to function properly there is a need for ontology. This project present a simple ontology contains some main concepts in NICU domain. This ontology was developed through a Protégé version 3.4.2 in seven steps that used to create the RDF and OWL. The ontology mainly includes 10 classes, 17 data properties, 8 object properties, some individuals and cardinality restrictions on relationships between classes, and other descriptions. At the end, the author found the ontology consistent after reasoning then executed four different SPARQL query and its result were correct. This ontology can be developed and used in another application around the NICU domain.