1. WonderWeb. Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web. IST-2001-33052 Project Review Meeting, 11 th March, 2004. WonderWeb Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web

2. WonderWeb. Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web. IST-2001-33052 Project Review Meeting, 11 th March, 2004. WonderWeb Consortium Academic Partners University of Manchester (VUM), Manchester, UK (co-ordinator) Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VUA), Amsterdam, Netherlands ISTC-CNR (ISTC), Trento, Italy AIFB University of Karslruhe (AIFB), Karlsruhe, Germany

3. WonderWeb. Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web. IST-2001-33052 Project Review Meeting, 11 th March, 2004. WonderWeb Consortium Industrial Advisory Board Dr. V. Richard Benjamins, iSOCO Dr. J. Bullock, Canon Research Richard Chen, InGenuity Systems Peter Crowther, Network Inference Ian Davis, Photonica, London, UK Dr. John Davies, BT Robert Engels, CognIT Dr. Einar H. Fredriksson, IOS Press Masahiro Hori, Ph.D., IBM Tokyo Ian Lang, Assistum Alain Léger, France Telecom Robin McEntire, GlaxoSmithKline Drs. J. van der Meer, aidministrator Peter F. Patel-Schneider, Lucent Dr. A. Persidis, biovista Hans-Peter Schnurr, ontoprise Massimo Soroldoni, Nomos Systems Prof. Austin Tate, AKT project Arthur J. Thomas, Ph.D., BioWisdom Dr. Luca Toldo, Merck KGaA Dr. Michael Uschold, Boeing Guido Vetere, IBM Rome Tivoli Labs Matthew West, Shell Mario Wolczko, Sun Microsystems

4. WonderWeb. Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web. IST-2001-33052 Project Review Meeting, 11 th March, 2004. Project Objectives Language architecture –Ontology language design and standardisation Technical infrastructure –Component based architecture and uniform API Foundational ontologies –Ontology library and design methodologies Ontological engineering methodologies –Versioning and modularisation frameworks Develop methodology and toolkit supporting Web based ontological engineering:

5. WonderWeb. Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web. IST-2001-33052 Project Review Meeting, 11 th March, 2004. January 2003 Highlights OWL language development—OWL about to achieve W3C candidate recommendation status KAON server prototype Range of tools and services including OilEd, LiFT etc. Ontology roadmap and DOLCE reference module OntoView versioning system and WonderWeb change ontology Demonstration using ontology development scenario to illustrate interactions between different WPs/components

6. WonderWeb. Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web. IST-2001-33052 Project Review Meeting, 11 th March, 2004. Lifting Versioning Refinement Alignment Legacy DB Schema, XML Schema, UML Spec RDF Ontology DAML+OIL Ontology FaCT Foundational ontology Change report OntoDiff DAML+OIL Ontology Demo Scenario (Jan 2003)

7. WonderWeb. Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web. IST-2001-33052 Project Review Meeting, 11 th March, 2004. January 2004 Highlights OWL now a fully fledged W3C standard (Feb 10, 2004) –Pioneering work on OWL rule and query languages Extended library of foundational and domain ontologies –Review of design methodologies and quality criteria Formal framework representing & reasoning with modular ontologies –Change management extended to distributed ontologies KAON server and OWL API integrate range of components –OilEd, Sesame, FaCT, Racer, LiFT, … –New FaCT++ inference engine

8. WonderWeb. Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web. IST-2001-33052 Project Review Meeting, 11 th March, 2004. Legacy DB Schema, XML Schema, UML Spec RDF Ontology DAML+OIL Ontology FaCT Foundational ontology Change report OntoDiff DAML+OIL Ontology 2004 Demo Scenario

9. WonderWeb. Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web. IST-2001-33052 Project Review Meeting, 11 th March, 2004. RDF Ontology DAML+OIL Ontology FaCT Foundational ontology Change report OntoDiff DAML+OIL Ontology 2004 Legacy DB Schema, XML Schema, UML Spec, Java Doc Additional extraction tools

10. WonderWeb. Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web. IST-2001-33052 Project Review Meeting, 11 th March, 2004. Tools now use OWL, the W3C standard for Web ontologies. RDF Ontology OWL Ontology FaCT Foundational ontology Change report OntoDiff OWL Ontology 2004 Legacy DB Schema, XML Schema, UML Spec, Java Doc Additional extraction tools

11. WonderWeb. Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web. IST-2001-33052 Project Review Meeting, 11 th March, 2004. Tools now use OWL, the W3C standard for Web ontologies. RDF Ontology OWL Ontology FaCT Change report OntoDiff OWL Ontology 2004 Library of foundational ontologies Library of ontologies now available Legacy DB Schema, XML Schema, UML Spec, Java Doc Additional extraction tools

12. WonderWeb. Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web. IST-2001-33052 Project Review Meeting, 11 th March, 2004. Ontologies can be held in RDF stores (e.g. Sesame) rather than as files. Sesame Tools now use OWL, the W3C standard for Web ontologies. RDF Ontology OWL Ontology FaCT Change report OntoDiff OWL Ontology 2004 Library of foundational ontologies Library of ontologies now available Legacy DB Schema, XML Schema, UML Spec, Java Doc Additional extraction tools

13. WonderWeb. Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web. IST-2001-33052 Project Review Meeting, 11 th March, 2004. Ontologies can be held in RDF stores (e.g. Sesame) rather than as files. Sesame Tools now use OWL, the W3C standard for Web ontologies. RDF Ontology OWL Ontology Change report OntoDiff OWL Ontology 2004 Library of foundational ontologies Library of ontologies now available FaCT++ RACER FaCT A number of different reasoners (using a standardised interface) are now available. Legacy DB Schema, XML Schema, UML Spec, Java Doc Additional extraction tools

14. WonderWeb. Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web. IST-2001-33052 Project Review Meeting, 11 th March, 2004. Ontologies can be held in RDF stores (e.g. Sesame) rather than as files. Sesame Tools now use OWL, the W3C standard for Web ontologies. RDF Ontology OWL Ontology Change report OntoDiff OWL Ontology 2004 Library of foundational ontologies Library of ontologies now available FaCT++ RACER FaCT A number of different reasoners (using a standardised interface) are now available. KAON Server provides access to components KAON Server Legacy DB Schema, XML Schema, UML Spec, Java Doc Additional extraction tools

15. WonderWeb. Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web. IST-2001-33052 Project Review Meeting, 11 th March, 2004. KAON Server provides access to components Registry Ontologies can be held in RDF stores (e.g. Sesame) rather than as files. Sesame Tools now use OWL, the W3C standard for Web ontologies. RDF Ontology OWL Ontology Change report OntoDiff OWL Ontology 2004 Library of foundational ontologies Library of ontologies now available FaCT++ RACER FaCT A number of different reasoners (using a standardised interface) are now available. Ontology-Based Registry supports query for components. KAON Server Legacy DB Schema, XML Schema, UML Spec, Java Doc Additional extraction tools

16. WonderWeb. Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web. IST-2001-33052 Project Review Meeting, 11 th March, 2004. Evolution Management methodology extends versioning support KAON Server provides access to components Registry Ontologies can be held in RDF stores (e.g. Sesame) rather than as files. Sesame Tools now use OWL, the W3C standard for Web ontologies. RDF Ontology OWL Ontology Change report OntoDiff OWL Ontology 2004 Library of foundational ontologies Library of ontologies now available FaCT++ RACER FaCT A number of different reasoners (using a standardised interface) are now available. Ontology-Based Registry supports query for components. KAON Server Legacy DB Schema, XML Schema, UML Spec, Java Doc Additional extraction tools