MOTunAr Ontology: Creation and Axioms Impacts

Abstract

Due to its potential for supporting heterogeneous and various data, ontologies are used in serval domains, notably the archaeological one. In this paper, we want to present a multimedia ontology that designs the different entities involved in the Tunisian archaeological field. On another hand, the task of creating ontology is error-prone. The quality of ontology should be sequentially evaluated based on various criteria (e.g., coherence, consciences, interoperability, etc.). Axioms present the guarantor to satisfy high quality for a developed ontology. Therefore, we detail in this work a hybrid approach that guarantees the quality of the generated ontology. This approach combines the corrective method that defines the positive axioms, and the constructive method that defines all relevant axioms based on the elimination of model and integrity constraints. The generated ontology is evaluated with the Pellet reasoner and OOPS! Online service.