DOOR - Towards a Formalization of Ontology Relations

Carlo Allocca, Mathieu d’Aquin, Enrico Motta

2009

Abstract

In this paper, we describe our ongoing effort in describing and formalizing semantic relations that link ontologies with each other on the Semantic Web in order to create an ontology, DOOR, to represent, manipulate and reason upon these relations. DOOR is a Descriptive Ontology of Ontology Relations which intends to define relations such as inclusion, versioning, similarity and agreement using ontological primitives as well as rules. Here, we provide a detailed description of the methodology used to design the DOOR ontology, as well as an overview of its content. We also describe how DOOR is used in a complete framework (called KANNEL) for detecting and managing semantic relations between ontologies in large ontology repositories. Applied in the context of a large collection of automatically crawled ontologies, DOOR and KANNEL provide a starting point for analyzing the underlying structure of the network of ontologies that is the Semantic Web.

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Allocca C., d’Aquin M. and Motta E. (2009). DOOR - Towards a Formalization of Ontology Relations . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2009) ISBN 978-989-674-012-2, pages 13-20. DOI: 10.5220/0002276400130020


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@conference{keod09,
author={Carlo Allocca and Mathieu d’Aquin and Enrico Motta},
title={DOOR - Towards a Formalization of Ontology Relations},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={13-20},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002276400130020},
isbn={978-989-674-012-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2009)
TI - DOOR - Towards a Formalization of Ontology Relations
SN - 978-989-674-012-2
AU - Allocca C.
AU - d’Aquin M.
AU - Motta E.
PY - 2009
SP - 13
EP - 20
DO - 10.5220/0002276400130020