this is the presentation given into iiWAS2017conference for the paper: Mazzola L., and Kapahnke P. (2017). DLP: a Web-based Facility for Exploration and Basic Modification of Ontologies by Domain Experts. In Proceedings of The 19th Int. Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services, Salzburg, Austria, December 4–6, 2017 (iiWAS ’17), 5 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3151759.3151816

1. DLP: a Web-based Facility for
Exploration and Basic Modification of
Ontologies by Domain Experts
Luca Mazzola and Patrick Kapahnke
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Saarbrücken, Germany
iiWAS conference 2017– Salzburg
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2. • Context
• Needs
• Functions offered
• DLP architecture
• Examples and Limits
• Conclusions
Agenda
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3. • SOA
• Ontology editing
• WebApp RESTful
• Industry 4.0 Manufacturing Domain
Context
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4. • Support Domain experts for:
• conceiving
• analyzing
• extending
• merging
ontologies, even if not familiar with semantic
technologies
• Integrated environment for these tasks
• Not a general solution: specific tool for the needs
of a H2020 research project (CREMA)…
Needs for DLP
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5. Functions offered by DLP
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• Creation of profile by sub-setting the public semantic
data sources (set of ontologies)
• Addition and removal of concepts/instances into a
domain expert profile
• Navigation of the semantic concept context with an
iterative exploration limited to a selectable radius,
without relying on any semantic format expertise
• Intuitive representation of similarity for given
concept/instance, by structural information, weighted
by their meaning

6. Architecture - Infrastructure
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Apache Jena
Fuseki2
CDM-Core
DOCKER container
9001
3030
9002
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7. Architecture – RESTful APIs
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• Includes sparse CRUD
(Create, Read, Update,
Delete) operations at
the level of :
• ontology
• user profile and its
metadata,
• operations to
provide search
functionality over
concepts and
instances

8. Delocalized ontology development process, run directly
by domain experts; ontology engineer intervention
required only for consolidation or in case of problems.
DLP usage in CREMA
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9. Screenshots: navigation
• Graphical exploration of an ontology extract (named
graph -> center concept -> radius)
• Concept “similarity” for the representation center
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10. Screenshots: similarity
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• Limited to owl:equivalentClass, rdfs:subClassOf,
rdfs:type, and owl:restriction
• Predefined weights: equivalent [1.0], children [0.9],
parents [0.8], instances [0.7] and connection with
complex concepts in the concept taxonomy [0.5]

11. Screenshots: profile
• Based on metadata (Dublin Core initiative), useful also
to maintain track of the contributor and the provided
contribution.
• Provide a working space for the domain experts, to
test modifications in a isolated environment.
• Allows local modification, affecting the public semantic
data source only for the relevant part, when released.
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12. Representational capabilities
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13. Limits
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• DLP is not a distributed environment and does not
support session management and versioning
• DLP does not prevent dirty writes, if a user
overrides the public ontology starting from an
outdated local profile.
• DLP does not automatically support a merge of the
local contribution into the new ontology version, if a
user modified its local profile without committing it
back.

14. Conclusions
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• DLP is a demonstrator tool to partially solve the
issue of semantic data source editing by non-experts
• DLP allows to work on a selected subpart of the
source relying on a user copy (profile), useful for
supporting the evolution, adaptation or extension of
a partially defined ontology
• DLP supports a simple but still informative and
immediate graphical view of an ontology part
• DLP supports the computation of an initial similarity
function with user-selected weights
• DLP uses a simplified metadata-based approach for
minimal collaborative distributed ontology evolution

15. Resources
Mazzola, L., Kapahnke, P., Vujic, M., & Klusch, M. (2016). CDM-Core: A Manufacturing
Domain Ontology in OWL2 for Production and Maintenance. In KEOD (pp. 136-143).
Mazzola, L., Kapahnke, P., Waibel, P., Hochreiner, C., & Klusch, M. (2017). FCE4BPMN: On-
demand QoS-based optimised process model execution in the cloud. In Proceedings of
the 23rd ICE/IEEE ITMC Conference. IEEE.
Mazzola L., Kapahnke P., Klusch M. (2017) ODERU: Optimisation of Semantic Service-
Based Processes in Manufacturing. In: Różewski P., Lange C. (eds) Knowledge Engineering
and Semantic Web. KESW 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol.
786. Springer, Cham
Mazzola L., Kapahnke P., Klusch M. (2017). Pattern-Based Semantic Composition of
Optimal Process Service Plans with ODERU. In Proceedings of The 19th Int. Conference on
Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services, Salzburg, Austria, December
4–6, 2017 (iiWAS ’17), 10 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3151759.3151773
Mazzola L., and Kapahnke P. (2017). DLP: a Web-based Facility for Exploration and Basic
Modification of Ontologies by Domain Experts. In Proceedings of The 19th Int. Conference
on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services, Salzburg, Austria,
December 4–6, 2017 (iiWAS ’17), 5 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3151759.3151816
05/Dec/2017iiWAS 2017 , Luca Mazzola

16. THANKS FOR THE ATTENTION
QUESTIONS?
LUCA.MAZZOLA@DFKI.DE
MAZZOLA.LUCA@GMAIL.COM
http://www.crema-project.eu
H2020-RIA agreement 637066
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mazzolaluca/
The ODERU code can be found at:
https://sw-dlp.sourceforge.io/
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