TY - GEN
T1 - Ontology Versioning and Change Detection on the Web
AU - Klein, Michel
AU - Fensel, Dieter
AU - Kiryakov, Atanas
AU - Ognyanov, Damyan
PY - 2002/10/1
Y1 - 2002/10/1
N2 - To effectively use ontologies on the Web, it is essential that changes in ontologies are managed well. This paper analyzes the topic of ontology versioning in the context of the Web by looking at the characteristics of the version relation between ontologies and at the identification of online ontologies. Then, it describes the design of a web-based system that helps users to manage changes in ontologies. The system helps to keep different versions of web-based ontologies interoperable, by maintaining not only the transformations between ontologies, but also the conceptual relation between concepts in different versions. The system allows ontology engineers to compare versions of ontology and to specify these conceptual relations. For the visualization of differences, it uses an adaptable rule-based mechanism that finds and classifies changes in RDF-based ontologies.
AB - To effectively use ontologies on the Web, it is essential that changes in ontologies are managed well. This paper analyzes the topic of ontology versioning in the context of the Web by looking at the characteristics of the version relation between ontologies and at the identification of online ontologies. Then, it describes the design of a web-based system that helps users to manage changes in ontologies. The system helps to keep different versions of web-based ontologies interoperable, by maintaining not only the transformations between ontologies, but also the conceptual relation between concepts in different versions. The system allows ontology engineers to compare versions of ontology and to specify these conceptual relations. For the visualization of differences, it uses an adaptable rule-based mechanism that finds and classifies changes in RDF-based ontologies.
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U2 - 10.1007/3-540-45810-7_20
DO - 10.1007/3-540-45810-7_20
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 3540442685
SN - 9783540442684
VL - 2473
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 197
EP - 212
BT - Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management: Ontologies and the Semantic Web - 13th International Conference, EKAW 2002, Proceedings
PB - Springer/Verlag
CY - Sigüenza, Spain
T2 - 13th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW 2002
Y2 - 1 October 2002 through 4 October 2002
ER -