GUIDELINES FOR A DYNAMIC ONTOLOGY - Integrating Tools of Evolution and Versioning in Ontology

Perrine Pittet, Christophe Cruz, Christophe Nicolle

2011

Abstract

Ontologies are built on systems that conceptually evolve over time. In addition, techniques and languages for building ontologies evolve too. This has led to numerous studies in the field of ontology versioning and ontology evolution. This paper presents a new way to manage the lifecycle of an ontology incorporating both versioning tools and evolution process. This solution, called VersionGraph, is integrated in the source ontology since its creation in order to make it possible to evolve and to be versioned. Change management is strongly related to the model in which the ontology is represented. Therefore, we focus on the OWL language in order to take into account the impact of the changes on the logical consistency of the ontology like specified in OWL DL.

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Pittet P., Cruz C. and Nicolle C. (2011). GUIDELINES FOR A DYNAMIC ONTOLOGY - Integrating Tools of Evolution and Versioning in Ontology . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2011) ISBN 978-989-8425-81-2, pages 173-179. DOI: 10.5220/0003653201730179


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@conference{kmis11,
author={Perrine Pittet and Christophe Cruz and Christophe Nicolle},
title={GUIDELINES FOR A DYNAMIC ONTOLOGY - Integrating Tools of Evolution and Versioning in Ontology},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={173-179},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003653201730179},
isbn={978-989-8425-81-2},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2011)
TI - GUIDELINES FOR A DYNAMIC ONTOLOGY - Integrating Tools of Evolution and Versioning in Ontology
SN - 978-989-8425-81-2
AU - Pittet P.
AU - Cruz C.
AU - Nicolle C.
PY - 2011
SP - 173
EP - 179
DO - 10.5220/0003653201730179