Ontology metadata for ontology reuse. (2nd May 2012)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Simperl, Elena; Sarasua, Cristina; Ungrangsi, Rachanee; Bürger, Tobias
• Is Part Of: International journal of metadata, semantics and ontologies. Volume 6:Number 2(2011)
• Page Start: 126
• Page End: 145
• Publication Date: 2012-05-02
• Subjects: ontology -- metadata -- reuse -- schema -- harvesting -- extraction -- generation -- documentation -- repositories -- search engine; 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

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.