An Infrastructure for Searching, Reusing and Evolving Distributed Ontologies
Year:
2003
Authors/Eds.:
A. Maedche and B. Motik and L. Stojanovic and R. Studer and R. Volz
Type of publication:
proceeding
Source:
WWW 2003, Budapest, http://www2003.org/
Abstract:
The vision of the Semantic Web can only be realized through
proliferation of well-known ontologies describing different
domains. To enable interoperability in the Semantic Web, it will
be necessary to break these ontologies down into smaller,
well-focused units that may be reused. Currently, three problems
arise in that scenario. Firstly, it is difficult to locate
ontologies to be reused, thus leading to many ontologies modeling
the same thing. Secondly, current tools do not provide means for
reusing existing ontologies in new ontologies. Finally, ontologies
are rarely static, but are being adapted to changing requirements.
Hence, an infrastructure for management of ontology changes,
taking into account dependencies between ontologies is needed. In
this paper we present such an infrastructure addressing the
aforementioned problems.
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