OWLDiff: A Practical Tool for Comparison and Merge of OWL Ontologies

As the semantic web is becoming more mature, the need for complex, large, formally described ontologies grows. Developing such ontologies is rather nontrivial and complex task requiring collaboration among knowledge engineers and domain experts. To support ontology sharing we introduce OWLDiff, an O...

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Published in2011 22nd International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications pp. 229 - 233
Main Authors Kremen, P., Smid, M., Kouba, Z.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.08.2011
Subjects
justifications
Ontologies
ontology comparison
ontology merging
OWL
Redundancy
Semantics
Syntactics
Terminology
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Summary:As the semantic web is becoming more mature, the need for complex, large, formally described ontologies grows. Developing such ontologies is rather nontrivial and complex task requiring collaboration among knowledge engineers and domain experts. To support ontology sharing we introduce OWLDiff, an OWL 2 ontology comparison/merge tool, its algorithms, implementation details and usage examples. OWLDiff can be used for syntactic, explanation-based and semantic comparison and merging of OWL 2 ontologies and integrates also a Subversion client for ontology versioning. The system is open-source and is available as a standalone application, Protégé plugin and NeOn toolkit plugin.
ISBN:9781457709821
1457709821
ISSN:1529-4188
2378-3915
DOI:10.1109/DEXA.2011.62