Title: Ontology metadata for ontology reuse

Authors: Elena Simperl; Cristina Sarasua; Rachanee Ungrangsi; Tobias Bürger

Addresses: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute AIFB, Englerstr. 11, Building 11.40, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany ' Vicomtech-IK4 – Visual Interaction Communication Technologies, Paseo Mikeletegi 57, Parque Tecnológico Miramon, 20009 San Sebastián, Spain ' Shinawatra University, 99 Moo 10 Bangtoey Samkok Pathumthani, 12160, Thailand ' Capgemini, Carl-Wery-Str. 42, 81739 Munich, Germany

Abstract: Ontologies are often poorly documented, thus being hardly accessible to users and ontology reuse services. A first step towards a better ontology documentation is an explicit schema for their systematic description. To offer an informed background for such a schema we surveyed ontology engineering technology, and the types of ontology-related descriptive means they use. The result is part of the OMV standard, and was evaluated through professional reviews. A second step is the provision of automatic techniques to acquire such documentation, for which we devised the Ontology MEtadata GenerAtion (OMEGA) algorithm, presented in the second part of the paper.

Keywords: ontology metadata generation; ontology reuse; schema; harvesting; extraction; ontology documentation; repositories; search engines; ontology engineering.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMSO.2011.046579

International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 2011 Vol.6 No.2, pp.126 - 145

Received: 11 Feb 2011
Accepted: 30 Aug 2011

Published online: 12 Feb 2015 *

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