Sub-ontologies and ontology views: a theoretical perspective. (25th January 2008)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Rajugan, R.; Chang, Elizabeth; Dillon, Tharam S.
• Is Part Of: International journal of metadata, semantics and ontologies. Volume 2:Number 2(2007)
• Page Start: 94
• Page End: 111
• Publication Date: 2008-01-25
• Subjects: semantic web -- data views -- ontology views -- conceptual semantics -- layered view model; Metadata -- Periodicals; Semantic Web -- Periodicals; Ontologies (Information retrieval) -- Periodicals; Data structures (Computer science) -- Periodicals; Information theory -- Periodicals; 005.74
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1744-2621

Abstract

The success of the Semantic Web (SW) relies heavily on formulation and interoperability of well-defined ontologies and their utilisation. Thus, in this context, it is interesting to investigate concepts like ontology view specification, construction and extraction. Here, in this paper, we address one such issue: ontology views. The proposed ontology view mechanism is a Layered View Model (LVM) and is specified and defined using conceptual and logical level semantics, as opposed to a query language. Our aim here is to provide a detailed theoretical foundation for LVM for ontologies. Also, our proposed concepts are illustrated using an industrial case-study example.