Citation
Hartmann, J. and Palma, R. and Sure, Y. and Suárez-Figueroa, Mari Carmen and Haase, Peter and Gómez-Pérez, A. and Studer, R.
(2005).
Ontology Metadata Vocabulary and Applications.
In: "First IFIP WG 2.12 & WG 12.4 International Workshop on Web Semantics (SWWS 2005). and On the Move Federated Conferences (OTM 2005)", 01/11/2009-02/11/2009, Agia Napa, Chipre. ISBN ISSN 0302-9743.
Abstract
Ontologies have seen quite an enormous development and application in many domains within the last years, especially in the context of the next web generation, the Semantic Web. Besides the work of countless researchers across the world, industry starts developing ontologies to support their daily operative business. Currently, most ontologies exist in pure form without any additional information, e.g. authorship information, such as provided by Dublin Core for text documents. This burden makes it difficult for academia and industry e.g. to identify, find and apply – basically meaning to reuse – ontologies effectively and efficiently. Our contribution consists of (i) a proposal for a metadata standard, so called Ontology Metadata Vocabulary (OMV) which is based on discussions in the EU IST thematic network of excellence Knowledge Web1 and (ii) two complementary reference implementations which show the benefit of such a standard in decentralized and centralized scenarios, i.e. the Oyster P2P system and the Onthology metadata portal.
