1. Semantic Web Project Status
Tim Peek
Adrian Diaz
Eric Clark

2. Project Status The Computing Ontology Project
Refined our original ontology based on Software Engineering section of the Computing Ontology Project website
Based on:
Extended and added relationships within our ontology

3. Project Status Improvements to existing ontology:
Added properties, definitions, characteristics to better define additions to the knowledge base
Made classes disjoint where appropriate
Reorganized hierarchy
Added “Software Engineering Topic” class and subclasses
Object properties define relationships
Still a large ontology.

4. Tools & knowledge representation
Protégé originally used for storing the ontology
Other visualization tools (ideas)
OWL Viz plugin for Protégé for diagramming
Knowledge Representation
Originally OWL and RDF Schema
Transitioning Ontology into Cyc KB

5. Tools & knowledge representation
Building our Ontology into ResearchCyc Software Engineering Ontology
Adding Classes/Concepts from our ontology (Protégé) into ResearchCyc
Website:

6. Transition from OWL to Cyc
Goal is to ensure that the classes and relationships are preserved from our OWL ontology
Keep both knowledge representations (OWL & Cyc)
Refer to Computing Ontology website for discrepancies.
Extend knowledge base using inputs such as text books and websites.

7. Goals Develop practical ontology Potential uses:
Querying and Deriving information
Leverage Cyc KB and NL to process data (for example: University course listings, curriculum and etc.)
Create Cyc constants and assertions.
Automated process for gathering information and verifying the data.
Potentially develop a visual representation of data.
Application friendly ontology

8. Potential Issues Classifying relationships properly
Adapting original relations into Cyc KB
Developing meaningful data representation – useful to our audience
Working to improve “use cases”.
Data collection
Instantiation
Representing / synchronizing Ontology in both OWL and Cyc.