1 Copyright © 2005 Access Innovations, Inc. OWL Mapping Thesaurus Format NEXT GENERATION KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION SYSTEMS: INTEGRATION CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES The 7 th Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop Joint Conference on Digital Libraries June 10-11, 2005 Jay Ven Eman, Ph.D., CEO Access Innovations, Inc FAX
2 Copyright © 2005 Access Innovations, Inc. OWL Web Ontology Language W3C Recommendation 10 February
3 Copyright © 2005 Access Innovations, Inc. OWL “…is intended to provide a language that can be used to describe the classes and relations between them that are inherent in Web documents and applications.”
4 Copyright © 2005 Access Innovations, Inc. OWL Formalize a domain by defining Classes Properties of those classes Define individuals Assert properties about them Reason about these Classes and Individuals
5 Copyright © 2005 Access Innovations, Inc. Ontology From philosophy – the science of describing Kinds of entities in the world How they are related
6 Copyright © 2005 Access Innovations, Inc. OWL Ontology May include Classes Properties Instances Capture semantics Multiple, distributed, related ontology schema Normative OWL exchange syntax RDF/XML Resource Description Framework/Extensible Markup Language
7 Copyright © 2005 Access Innovations, Inc. Taxonomy, Thesaurus, & Ontology Taxonomies and thesauri are not ontologies They are entities or “conceptualizations” Ontology – science of describing kinds of entities For thesauri and taxonomies “a specification of a conceptualization”
8 Copyright © 2005 Access Innovations, Inc. Taxonomy, Thesaurus, & Ontology OWL output Provides semantic meaning to these kinds of entities or conceptualizations Web resource Accessible to automated processes
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10 Copyright © 2005 Access Innovations, Inc. DH OWL Output Open DHProject.owl
11 Copyright © 2005 Access Innovations, Inc. DHProject.owl <!DOCTYPE rdf:RDF [ ]> <rdf:RDF xmlns=" xmlns:DHProject =" xmlns:base =" xmlns:owl =" xmlns:rdf =" xmlns:rdfs=" xmlns:xsd =" OWL export from MAIstro DHProject Ontology Declaration XML entities Default namespace Current ontology Base URI for this document Namespaces for rdf, rdfs, & xsd Ontology header Thesaurus Specification
12 Copyright © 2005 Access Innovations, Inc. DHProject.owl
13 Copyright © 2005 Access Innovations, Inc. DHProject.owl Agribusiness Agriculture Agronomy American music Architecture End of Ontology Specification
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15 Copyright © 2005 Access Innovations, Inc. DHProject.owl Agribusiness Agriculture Agronomy American music Architecture
16 Copyright © 2005 Access Innovations, Inc. DHProject.owl Band music Bands (Music) Baroque music Bluegrass music Brass instruments Business Chamber music
17 Copyright © 2005 Access Innovations, Inc. Thank you! Questions? OWL Mapping Thesaurus Format NEXT GENERATION KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION SYSTEMS: INTEGRATION CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES The 7 th Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop Joint Conference on Digital Libraries June 10-11, 2005 Jay Ven Eman, Ph.D., CEO Access Innovations, Inc FAX