An empirical study on groupware support for water resources ontology integration

Authors:
Juliana Lucas de Rezende;Jairo Francisco de Souza;Elder Bomfim;Jano Moreira de Souza;Otto Corrêa Rotunno Filho
Affiliations:
COPPE/UFRJ – Graduate School of Computer Science, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil;COPPE/UFRJ – Graduate School of Computer Science, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil;COPPE/UFRJ – Graduate School of Computer Science, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil;COPPE/UFRJ – Graduate School of Computer Science, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil;COPPE/UFRJ – LabHID – CT/Bloco I, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Venue:
APWeb'06 Proceedings of the 8th Asia-Pacific Web conference on Frontiers of WWW Research and Development
Year:
2006

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Abstract

In this paper we discuss groupware support for ontology integration and present an experiment carried out with a group of specialists in the Water Resources domain and in Ontology Engineering. The main goals of this experiment are to create, in a collaborative way, a well-formed ontology for a Water Resources domain and evaluate the ontology integration process. The motivation of our work came from the development of knowledge management and information systems for the hydrological domain, where ontologies can be used as a broker between heterogeneous systems, to facilitate tasks inter-mediation and to help in knowledge storage, being used to publish semantic enriched documents. Since the development of a great ontology has a high cost, ontology re-use becomes an important activity; and consequently, so does the integration process. For this reason, tool support is essential.