Paper Info
Title
Finding and Characterizing Changes in Ontologies
Abstract
Recently, the interest in the use of ontologies -- which can be seen as formal representations of conceptual models -- has increased because of the excitement about the vision of a "Semantic Web". When ontologies are used on the web, the distributed and dynamic nature of it requires advanced support for change management. This paper discusses the working of OntoView, a web-based change management system for ontologies. OntoView provides a transparent interface to different versions of ontologies, by maintaining not only the transformations between them, but also the conceptual relation between concepts in different versions. It uses several rules to find changes in ontologies and it visualizes them -- and some of their possible consequences -- in the file representations. The user is able to specify the conceptual implication of the differences, which allows the interoperability of data that is described by the ontologies. This paper briefly describes the system and presents the mechanism that we used to find and classify changes in RDFS / DAML ontologies. It also shows how users can specify the conceptual implication of changes to help interoperability.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1007/3-540-45816-6_16
ER
Keywords
Field
DocType
daml ontology,web-based change management system,conceptual relation,change management,conceptual model,advanced support,paper briefly,semantic web,characterizing changes,conceptual implication,different version
Ontology (information science),Data mining,Knowledge representation and reasoning,Computer science,Description logic,Semantic Web,IDEF5,Change management (ITSM),RDF Schema,Database,Web Ontology Language
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
2503
0302-9743
3-540-44277-4
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
17
1.54
6
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Michel Klein186483.76
Atanas Kiryakov2106965.80
Damyan Ognyanov335023.80
Dieter Fensel45545662.62