1. Reusing XML Schemas' Information as a Foundation for Designing
Domain Ontologies
Thomas Bosch (M.Sc.)
thomas.bosch@gesis.org | http://boschthomas.blogspot.com
Problem Main Research Question
• Traditionally, ontology engineers work in close collaboration with How to sped up the time-consuming process designing domain ontologies
domain experts to design domain ontologies manually, which requires based on already available XSDs?
lots of time and effort
• Domain ontologies as well as XSDs describe domain data models
• In many cases, XSDs are already defined and can be re-used
Proposed Approach Derive Domain Ontologies using SWRL rules
Novelty of Approach Evaluation
• Based on XSD metamodel • User study to compare traditional manual and proposed approach
• Extract vocabulary, terminology, syntactic structure vs. semantics • Define and classify typical tasks
• Transformation on terminological and assertional knowledge level • Define measurement methods
• Automatic vs. manual or semi-automatic transformation of XSD/XML • Derive domain ontologies of multiple and differing domains
• Derivation of domain ontologies vs. creation of generated ontologies
• OWL (more expressive power) vs. RDFS generated ontologies
XSDs to Generated Ontologies