Managing ontologies: a comparative study of ontology servers
ADC '07 Proceedings of the eighteenth conference on Australasian database - Volume 63
A Federated Layer to Integrate Heterogeneous Knowledge
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
Service-oriented business-to-business e-commerce requires dynamic and open-interoperable information systems. Although most large organizations have stored in databases information such as products, services and customers, and XML/DTD allows these to be published over the Internet, sharing information among these systems have been prevented by semantic heterogeneity. True electronic commerce will not come until the semantics of the terms used to model these information systems could be captured and processed by computers.To develop a machine process-able ontology (vocabulary) is intrinsically hard. The semantics of a term varies from one context to another. We believe ontology engineering will be a major effort of any future application development. In this paper we describe our work on building a Domain Ontology Management Environment (DOME). DOME is developing techniques for ontology-based information contents description and a suite of tools for domain ontology management. Information contents description is extending traditional metadata to an ontology. This makes it possible to dynamically find relevant data sources based on contents and to integrate them as need arises.