Semantic Web Dog Food

Presented at: 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2008)

by Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz, Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Ulrike Sattler, Thomas Schneider, Rafael Berlanga-Llavori

Driven by application requirements and using well-understood theoretical results, we describe a novel methodology and a tool for modular ontology design. We support the user in the safe use of imported symbols and in the economic import of the relevant part of the imported ontology. Both features are supported in a well-understood way: safety guarantees that the semantics of imported concepts is not changed, and economic import guarantees that no difference can be observed between importing the whole ontology and importing the relevant part.

Keywords: conservative extensions, locality, modularity, ontology reuse, safety, Data Integration, Ontology (computer science), Ontology (Computer Science), Semantic Web, User Interface, Web Ontology Language

Resource URI on the dog food server: http://data.semanticweb.org/conference/eswc/2008/paper/265
Same as: http://revyu.com/things/eswc-2008-paper-safe-and-support
Same as: http://semanticweb.org/id/Safe_and_Economic_re-use_of_ontologies-3A_a_logic-based_methodology_and_tool_support

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