Authors:
Carlo Allocca
;
Mathieu d’Aquin
and
Enrico Motta
Affiliation:
The Open University, United Kingdom
Keyword(s):
Ontology Relations, Networked Ontology.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Networked Ontologies
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
In this paper, we describe our ongoing effort in describing and formalizing semantic relations that link ontologies with each other on the Semantic Web in order to create an ontology, DOOR, to represent, manipulate and reason upon these relations. DOOR is a Descriptive Ontology of Ontology Relations which intends to define relations such as inclusion, versioning, similarity and agreement using ontological primitives as well as rules. Here, we provide a detailed description of the methodology used to design the DOOR ontology, as well as an overview of its content. We also describe how DOOR is used in a complete framework (called KANNEL) for detecting and managing semantic relations between ontologies in large ontology repositories. Applied in the context of a large collection of automatically crawled ontologies, DOOR and KANNEL provide a starting point for analyzing the underlying structure of the network of ontologies that is the Semantic Web.