Modeling Ontology Views

Abstract

Abstract:The emergence of Semantic Web (SW) and the related technologies promise to make the web a meaningful experience. However, high level modeling, design and querying techniques proves to be a challenging task for organizations that are hoping to utilize the SW paradigm for their industrial applications. To address one such issue, in this paper, we propose an abstract view model with conceptual extensions for the SW. First we outline the view model, its properties and some modeling issues with the help of an industrial case study example. Then, we provide some discussions on constructing such views (at the conceptual level) using a set of operators. Later we provide a brief discussion on how such this view model can utilized in the MOVE [1] system, to design and construct materialized Ontology views to support Ontology extraction.Keywords: Semantic Web (SW), view models. Ontology views, Object-Oriented conceptual models (OOCM), conceptual views. Ontology extraction INTRODUCTIONThe emergence of Semantic Web (SW) and the related technologies promise to make the web a meaningful experience. Conversely, success of SW and its applications depends heavily on utilization and interoperability of well formulated Ontology bases in an automated, heterogeneous environment. This creates a need to investigate utilization of (materialized) Ontology views [2] in SW applications, such as; (a) Ontology extraction, (b) Ontology versioning, (c) sub-ontology bases, and (d) SW-wrappers for traditional data sources, in industrial settings. However, unlike