TY - GEN
T1 - FOCIH
T2 - 28th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2009
AU - Tao, Cui
AU - Embley, David W.
AU - Liddle, Stephen W.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Creating an ontology and populating it with data are both labor-intensive tasks requiring a high degree of expertise. Thus, scaling ontology creation and population to the size of the web in an effort to create a web of data - which some see as Web 3.0 - is prohibitive. Can we find ways to streamline these tasks and lower the barrier enough to enable Web 3.0? Toward this end we offer a form-based approach to ontology creation that provides a way to create Web 3.0 ontologies without the need for specialized training. And we offer a way to semi-automatically harvest data from the current web of pages for a Web 3.0 ontology. In addition to harvesting information with respect to an ontology, the approach also annotates web pages and links facts in web pages to ontological concepts, resulting in a web of data superimposed over the web of pages. Experience with our prototype system shows that mappings between conceptual-model-based ontologies and forms are sufficient for creating the kind of ontologies needed for Web 3.0, and experiments with our prototype system show that automatic harvesting, automatic annotation, and automatic superimposition of a web of data over a web of pages work well.
AB - Creating an ontology and populating it with data are both labor-intensive tasks requiring a high degree of expertise. Thus, scaling ontology creation and population to the size of the web in an effort to create a web of data - which some see as Web 3.0 - is prohibitive. Can we find ways to streamline these tasks and lower the barrier enough to enable Web 3.0? Toward this end we offer a form-based approach to ontology creation that provides a way to create Web 3.0 ontologies without the need for specialized training. And we offer a way to semi-automatically harvest data from the current web of pages for a Web 3.0 ontology. In addition to harvesting information with respect to an ontology, the approach also annotates web pages and links facts in web pages to ontological concepts, resulting in a web of data superimposed over the web of pages. Experience with our prototype system shows that mappings between conceptual-model-based ontologies and forms are sufficient for creating the kind of ontologies needed for Web 3.0, and experiments with our prototype system show that automatic harvesting, automatic annotation, and automatic superimposition of a web of data over a web of pages work well.
KW - Automatic annotation of web pages
KW - Information harvesting from the web
KW - Ontology generation from forms
KW - Web 3.0
KW - Web of data
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-04840-1_26
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-04840-1_26
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78650700298
SN - 3642048390
SN - 9783642048395
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 346
EP - 359
BT - Conceptual Modeling - ER 2009 - 28th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Proceedings
Y2 - 9 November 2009 through 12 November 2009
ER -