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with many online ontologies, and with the Moda-
ML ontology, that includes 373 classes, 44
relationships and 1098 instances.
2. matches with the skills of a person that is
not an ontology expert. To this aims, the
concepts of classes, instances, datatype or object
property are completely transparent to the users.
A central issue has been also the design of
friendly forms for information visualisation.
3. provides a powerful research interface.
4. exploits the use of labels, that allows the
browsing of multi-language ontologies, a more
strong comprehension of the terms and a stronger
search and browsing. The concept IDs in an
ontology should be used as are primary keys in a
database, just to identify a class/instance/-
property, but IDs should not be used to provide
semantic information (as usually happens).
It is worth to note that the Ontology Explorer
distinguishes itself from other tools like Protégé
because it should be considered not like an editor for
Ontology Expert (like Protégé), but like a powerful
browser for Domain Expert. Considering our use
cases, exploiting the semantic representation of the
Moda-ML business vocabulary, the tool has
simplified the interfacing with the terms and the
XML Schema documents, allowing a more easy
search and analysis of them. The future steps to
improve the Ontology Explorer will concern mainly:
• To enhance the configurability of the tool
providing a new set of customizations about the
domain of user’s interest. This will be achieved
by defining some Semantic Profiles that could be
adopted by the user (externally to the ontology)
to browse a specific ontology.
• To add a new Advanced Semantic Search
that could use logic inference to deduce non
explicit information and that allows enlarging the
resulting set of the matching concepts to all the
semantically related ones.
• To improve the graphical aspect and the
usability and to solve some compatibility issues
with some browsers (for instance Opera™ and
Firefox™ don’t render some widgets so well).
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