OntoWeb - A Semantic Web Community Portal

  • Authors:
  • Peter Spyns;Daniel Oberle;Raphael Volz;Jijuan Zheng;Mustafa Jarrar;York Sure;Rudi Studer;Robert Meersman

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • PAKM '02 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

This paper describes a semantic portal through which knowledge can be gathered, stored, secured and accessed by members of a certain community. In particular, this portal takes into account companies and research institutes participating in the E.U. funded thematic network called OntoWeb. Ontology-based annotation of information is a prerequisite in order to offer the possibility of knowledge retrieval and extraction. The usage of well-defined semantics allows for the knowledge exchange between different OntoWeb community members. Thus, members are able to publish annotated information on the web, which is then crawled by a syndicator and stored in the portal's knowledge base. The backbone of the portal architecture consists of a knowledge base in which the ontology and the instances are stored and maintained. In addition, ontology-boosted query mechanisms and presentation facilities are provided.