OntoEditor: a Web tool for manipulating ontologies stored in database servers

Author

de Souza Baptista, C.

Author_Institution

Dept. de Sistemas e Computacao, Univ. Fed. de Campina Grande, Brazil

fYear

2004

fDate

30 Aug.-3 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

151

Lastpage

155

Abstract

The Web is moving to a new generation in which machine-understandable processing is mandatory. In order to achieve this goal it is essential to define ontologies, which enable the modeling of application domains and can be shared and understood by different applications in different platforms. These ontologies are complex and so it is necessary to provide software tools which aim to facilitate ontology manipulation. We describe a new tool for ontology manipulation known as OntoEditor. OntoEditor is a Web tool, which has a graphical interface for representing an ontology graph. Moreover, OntoEditor uses a database management system for ontology persistency and query manipulation. The ontologies are represented internally as RDF and RDF Schema.

Keywords

Internet; database management systems; graphical user interfaces; ontologies (artificial intelligence); query processing; OntoEditor; RDF schema; Web tool; database management system; database server; graphical interface; machine-understandable processing; ontology graph representation; ontology manipulation; ontology persistency; query manipulation; software tools; Application software; Database systems; Humans; Mesons; Microstrip; Ontologies; Relational databases; Resource description framework; Semantic Web; Software tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Database and Expert Systems Applications, 2004. Proceedings. 15th International Workshop on

ISSN

1529-4188

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2195-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DEXA.2004.1333465

Filename

1333465