<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Domain ontologies are valuable knowledge assets with many potential applications, e.g. in software engineering. Their content is often a subject of bi-directional transformations. Unfortunately, a centralized transformation service which can be easily extended with new mappers is not available for ontology users. In consequence, they have to deal with many different translation programs, which have to be installed and learned separately. The paper presents a framework for universal ontology processing, dedicated to ontologies expressed in OWL2. The framework usefulness was verified by a proof-of-concept implementation, for which an existing OWL2 to Groovy translator was adapted. During the integration process, the translator functionality was enhanced with ontology individuals mapping. The exemplary implementation confirmed that the framework with plug-in architecture is flexible and easy for customization. The ontology stakeholders should benefit from the reduced cognitive load and more satisfying transformation process.</p></abstract>

Domain ontologies are valuable knowledge assets with many potential applications, e.g. in software engineering. Their content is often a subject of bi-directional transformations. Unfortunately, a centralized transformation service which can be easily extended with new mappers is not available for ontology users. In consequence, they have to deal with many different translation programs, which have to be installed and learned separately. The paper presents a framework for universal ontology processing, dedicated to ontologies expressed in OWL2. The framework usefulness was verified by a proof-of-concept implementation, for which an existing OWL2 to Groovy translator was adapted. During the integration process, the translator functionality was enhanced with ontology individuals mapping. The exemplary implementation confirmed that the framework with plug-in architecture is flexible and easy for customization. The ontology stakeholders should benefit from the reduced cognitive load and more satisfying transformation process.

Universal Framework for OWL2 Ontology Transformations

Faculty of Computer Science and Management

Wrocław University of Science and Technology

Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences

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Domain ontologies are valuable knowledge assets with many potential applications, e.g. in software engineering. Their content is often a subject of...

Universal Framework for OWL2 Ontology Transformations

Published Online: Dec 31, 2018

Page range: 375 - 393

Received: Jul 04, 2018

Accepted: Oct 19, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/fcds-2018-0019

Keywords
OWL2, ontology, framework, transformation, translation, mapping, Groovy

© 2018 Bogumiła Hnatkowska et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Universal Framework for OWL2 Ontology Transformations

Published Online: Dec 31, 2018

Page range: 375 - 393

Received: Jul 04, 2018

Accepted: Oct 19, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/fcds-2018-0019

KeywordsOWL2, ontology, framework, transformation, translation, mapping, Groovy

© 2018 Bogumiła Hnatkowska et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
OWL2, ontology, framework, transformation, translation, mapping, Groovy