WonderWeb. Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web. IST-2001-33052Project Review Meeting, 11th March, 2004.

WonderWebOntology Infrastructure for the

Semantic Web

WonderWeb. Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web. IST-2001-33052Project Review Meeting, 11th March, 2004.

WonderWeb ConsortiumAcademic Partners

• University of Manchester (VUM), Manchester, UK (co-ordinator)

• Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VUA), Amsterdam, Netherlands

• ISTC-CNR (ISTC), Trento, Italy

• AIFB University of Karslruhe (AIFB), Karlsruhe, Germany

WonderWeb. Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web. IST-2001-33052Project Review Meeting, 11th March, 2004.

WonderWeb ConsortiumIndustrial Advisory Board

• Dr. V. Richard Benjamins, iSOCO• Dr. J. Bullock, Canon Research• Richard Chen, InGenuity Systems• Peter Crowther, Network Inference• Ian Davis, Photonica, London, UK• Dr. John Davies, BT• Robert Engels, CognIT• Dr. Einar H. Fredriksson, IOS Press• Masahiro Hori, Ph.D., IBM Tokyo• Ian Lang, Assistum• Alain Léger, France Telecom• Robin McEntire, GlaxoSmithKline

• Drs. J. van der Meer, aidministrator• Peter F. Patel-Schneider, Lucent• Dr. A. Persidis, biovista• Hans-Peter Schnurr, ontoprise• Massimo Soroldoni, Nomos Systems• Prof. Austin Tate, AKT project• Arthur J. Thomas, Ph.D., BioWisdom• Dr. Luca Toldo, Merck KGaA• Dr. Michael Uschold, Boeing• Guido Vetere, IBM Rome Tivoli Labs• Matthew West, Shell• Mario Wolczko, Sun Microsystems

WonderWeb. Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web. IST-2001-33052Project Review Meeting, 11th March, 2004.

Project Objectives

• Language architecture– Ontology language design and standardisation

• Technical infrastructure– Component based architecture and uniform API

• Foundational ontologies– Ontology library and design methodologies

• Ontological engineering methodologies– Versioning and modularisation frameworks

Develop methodology and toolkit supporting Web based ontological engineering:

WonderWeb. Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web. IST-2001-33052Project Review Meeting, 11th March, 2004.

January 2003 Highlights

• OWL language development—OWL about to achieve W3C

candidate recommendation status

• KAON server prototype

• Range of tools and services including OilEd, LiFT etc.

• Ontology roadmap and DOLCE reference module

• OntoView versioning system and WonderWeb change ontology

• Demonstration using ontology development scenario to illustrate

interactions between different WPs/components

WonderWeb. Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web. IST-2001-33052Project Review Meeting, 11th March, 2004.

Lifting

Versioning

RefinementAlignment

LegacyDB Schema, XML Schema,

UML Spec

RDF Ontology

DAML+OIL Ontology

FaCT

Foundationalontology

Change reportOntoDiff

DAML+OIL Ontology

Demo Scenario (Jan 2003)

WonderWeb. Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web. IST-2001-33052Project Review Meeting, 11th March, 2004.

January 2004 Highlights

• OWL now a fully fledged W3C standard (Feb 10, 2004)

– Pioneering work on OWL rule and query languages

• Extended library of foundational and domain ontologies

– Review of design methodologies and quality criteria

• Formal framework representing & reasoning with modular ontologies

– Change management extended to distributed ontologies

• KAON server and OWL API integrate range of components

– OilEd, Sesame, FaCT, Racer, LiFT, …

– New FaCT++ inference engine

WonderWeb. Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web. IST-2001-33052Project Review Meeting, 11th March, 2004.

LegacyDB Schema, XML Schema,

UML Spec

RDF Ontology

DAML+OIL Ontology

FaCT

Foundationalontology

Change reportOntoDiff

DAML+OIL Ontology

2004 Demo Scenario

WonderWeb. Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web. IST-2001-33052Project Review Meeting, 11th March, 2004.

RDF Ontology

DAML+OIL Ontology

FaCT

Foundationalontology

Change reportOntoDiff

DAML+OIL Ontology

2004

LegacyDB Schema, XML Schema,

UML Spec, Java Doc

Additional extraction tools

WonderWeb. Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web. IST-2001-33052Project Review Meeting, 11th March, 2004.

Tools now use OWL, the W3C standard for Web ontologies.

RDF Ontology

OWL Ontology

FaCT

Foundationalontology

Change reportOntoDiff

OWL Ontology

2004

LegacyDB Schema, XML Schema,

UML Spec, Java Doc

Additional extraction tools

WonderWeb. Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web. IST-2001-33052Project Review Meeting, 11th March, 2004.

Tools now use OWL, the W3C standard for Web ontologies.

RDF Ontology

OWL Ontology

FaCT

Change reportOntoDiff

OWL Ontology

2004Library of foundationalontologies

Library of ontologies now available

LegacyDB Schema, XML Schema,

UML Spec, Java Doc

Additional extraction tools

WonderWeb. Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web. IST-2001-33052Project Review Meeting, 11th March, 2004.

Ontologies can be held in RDF stores (e.g. Sesame) rather than as files.

Sesame

Tools now use OWL, the W3C standard for Web ontologies.

RDF Ontology

OWL Ontology

FaCT

Change reportOntoDiff

OWL Ontology

2004Library of foundationalontologies

Library of ontologies now available

LegacyDB Schema, XML Schema,

UML Spec, Java Doc

Additional extraction tools

WonderWeb. Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web. IST-2001-33052Project Review Meeting, 11th March, 2004.

Ontologies can be held in RDF stores (e.g. Sesame) rather than as files.

Sesame

Tools now use OWL, the W3C standard for Web ontologies.

RDF Ontology

OWL Ontology

Change reportOntoDiff

OWL Ontology

2004Library of foundationalontologies

Library of ontologies now available

FaCT++RACER

FaCT

A number of different reasoners (using a standardised interface) are now available. Legacy

DB Schema, XML Schema,UML Spec, Java Doc

Additional extraction tools

WonderWeb. Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web. IST-2001-33052Project Review Meeting, 11th March, 2004.

Ontologies can be held in RDF stores (e.g. Sesame) rather than as files.

Sesame

Tools now use OWL, the W3C standard for Web ontologies.

RDF Ontology

OWL Ontology

Change reportOntoDiff

OWL Ontology

2004Library of foundationalontologies

Library of ontologies now available

FaCT++RACER

FaCT

A number of different reasoners (using a standardised interface) are now available.

KAON Server provides access to components

KAON Server

LegacyDB Schema, XML Schema,

UML Spec, Java Doc

Additional extraction tools

WonderWeb. Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web. IST-2001-33052Project Review Meeting, 11th March, 2004.

KAON Server provides access to components

Registry

Ontologies can be held in RDF stores (e.g. Sesame) rather than as files.

Sesame

Tools now use OWL, the W3C standard for Web ontologies.

RDF Ontology

OWL Ontology

Change reportOntoDiff

OWL Ontology

2004Library of foundationalontologies

Library of ontologies now available

FaCT++RACER

FaCT

A number of different reasoners (using a standardised interface) are now available.

Ontology-Based Registry supports query for components.

KAON Server

LegacyDB Schema, XML Schema,

UML Spec, Java Doc

Additional extraction tools

WonderWeb. Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web. IST-2001-33052Project Review Meeting, 11th March, 2004.

Evolution Management methodology extends versioning support KAON Server provides access to

components

Registry

Ontologies can be held in RDF stores (e.g. Sesame) rather than as files.

Sesame

Tools now use OWL, the W3C standard for Web ontologies.

RDF Ontology

OWL Ontology

Change reportOntoDiff

OWL Ontology

2004Library of foundationalontologies

Library of ontologies now available

FaCT++RACER

FaCT

A number of different reasoners (using a standardised interface) are now available.

Ontology-Based Registry supports query for components.

KAON Server

LegacyDB Schema, XML Schema,

UML Spec, Java Doc

Additional extraction tools