Title
Practical Issues for Building a Product Ontology System
Abstract
A base of clearly defined product information is a key foundation for an e-commerce system. The manipulation and exchange of semantically enriched and precise product information can enhance the quality of an ecommerce system and offer a high level of interoperability with other systems. Product information consists of product attributes and the relationships between products. Product categorization (or classification) is one type of such relationships. Ontology can play an important role in the formalization of product information. Although the idea of utilizing ontology for e-Catalogs has been raised before, we are yet to find an operational implementation of applying ontology in the domain. In this paper, we report on our recent effort to build an operational product ontology system for the government procurement service. The system is designed to serve as a product ontology knowledge base; not only for the design and construction of product databases but also for search and discovery of products. We introduce some of the issues that we have experienced in the project, so that our work may serve as a reference model for similar projects in the future.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1109/DEEC.2005.17
DEEC
Keywords
Field
DocType
operational product ontology system,product categorization,product information,e-commerce system,ecommerce system,product databases,product attribute,utilizing ontology,practical issues,product ontology system,product ontology knowledge base,precise product information,ontologies,computer science,procurement,reference model,electronic commerce,e commerce,resource description framework,knowledge base,internet,knowledge based systems,government,information analysis,markup languages,databases
Ontology (information science),Product engineering,Ontology-based data integration,Process ontology,Computer science,Knowledge management,Product management,Product design specification,Suggested Upper Merged Ontology,Upper ontology
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-2401-X
10
0.76
References 
Authors
17
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ig-hoon Lee1535.43
Suekyung Lee2463.72
Taehee Lee331823.08
Sang-goo Lee4832151.04
Dongkyu Kim520522.97
Jonghoon Chun617521.31
Hyunja Lee7615.35