Dynamic Ontologies on the Web

Abstract

We discuss the problems associated with managing ontologies in distributed environments such as the Web. The Web poses unique problems for the use of ontologies because of the rapid evolution and autonomy of web sites. We present SHOE, a web-based knowledge representation language that supports multiple versions of ontologies. We describe SHOE in the terms of a logic that separates data from ontologies and allows ontologies to provide different perspectives on the data. We then discuss the features of SHOE that address ontology versioning, the effects of ontology revision on SHOE web pages, and methods for implementing ontology integration using SHOE's extension and version mechanisms.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA440528

Entities

People

  • James Hendler
  • Jeff Heflin

Organizations

  • University of Maryland

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Science
  • Environment
  • Intelligent Agents
  • Internet
  • Knowledge Management
  • Language
  • Markup Languages
  • Models
  • Networks
  • Ontologies
  • Semantics
  • Vocabulary
  • Websites
  • World Wide Web
  • Xml

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications