Towards standardization in frameworks, tools and approaches dedicated to ontology building and management

Abstract

Abstract The widespread popularity and spread of ontologies in many areas increasingly requires the successful integration of multiple such ontologies. The ontology integration problem has been investigated during last years and it is still a challenging task. Aligning and merging existing ontologies, which are usually handled manually, is often a big and tedious part of the sharing process. Due to the fact that there are different approaches, tools and strategies that help to avoid mistakes during modeling especially large domains and creating a new single coherent ontology, this article attempts to build a common knowledge repository in the form of an open and publicly available tool. The overall goal of the proposed open knowledge repository is to provide free access to basic data and to compare the features offered. It is worth mentioning that this form of knowledge representation is publicly available and focuses on the possibility of updating and reusing. It is an attempt to structure knowledge that can be successfully extended with additional groups of solutions and parameters. The proposed approach can be easily implemented as a light library and used in any type of OWL/RDF or OWL/XML management application or adapted in a given management information system.