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Corporate Ontology Engineering

Ontologies build the central prerequisite for Corporate Semantic Search and Corporate Semantic Collaboration scenarios. Thus, in Corporate Ontology Engineering we research methodologies and tools for detecting and collecting expertise and for the administration and use of the resulting ontology models. Current approaches to these topics cover ontology development, storage, maintenance and evaluation. Accepted ontology languages are provided by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as RDF(S) and OWL which feature a XML-conform and Web-compatible fundament for networked, exchanged and reused ontologies in distributed environments.

These technological foundations do not tackle the problems of ontology design, implementation and maintenance in corporate settings in a holistic manner. Context-sensitive facts and process-dependent aspects have to be modelled. Furthermore, the economic and collaborative dimensions of the process side are insufficiently researched, which play a major role in business contexts.
An integrated CSW architecture with focus on Ontology Engineering

Ontology Modularization and Integration

Creation and maintenance of ontologies are cumbersome and time-consuming tasks. Therefore cost-effective methodologies and tools are essential for adopting ontologies in corporate settings. Modularization and Integration of ontologies allow to decrease the capital expenditure by enabling reusing relevant parts of already existing ontologies. The operational expenditure is also kept at a low level through an adequate partitioning of the corporate ontology. Modules of a suitable size are easier to maintain and allow more efficient usage. It is investigated how ontologies can be modularized and integrated in corporate settings and which information available in business environments are relevant.

Ontology Versioning

The World Wide Web is large-scale, unregulated and heterogenous. Every individual is free in publishing, adapting and (re-)using information. These characteristics of the Web raise new problems with respect to ontology usage as ontologies can independently evolve, making it hard to keep user-generated data based on an evolving ontology consistent or to control the separate evolutions of the same ontology.

We research a life-cycle management for ontologies which suits corporate settings with emphasize on control of user-specific and process-specific versions of ontologies including consistence checking, rollout and rollback of changes, individual adoption by users (automatic and on-demand) and matching of ontology versions. Our working group will focus on economic apects of ontology engineering processes as part of agile software engineering scenarios.

Ontology Cost Estimation Models for Corporation

Start: 2011-01

Ontology Evaluation

Start: 2011-01

Latest News

2010-08-25 08:52

Corporate Semantic Web @ Xinnovations

Die im vergangenen Jahr entwickelten Konzepte wurden inzwischen in Demonstratoren umgesetzt und werden in kurzen Vorträgen auf dem Workshop vorgestellt. Des Weiteren präsentieren Referenten aus Unternehmen Anwendungen, die auf semantischen Technologien aufsetzen.

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2010-07-27 23:38

6th Berlin Semantic Web Meetup at Xinnovations 2010

We invite you to the 6th Berlin Semantic Web Meetup on 14 September 2010 at 5 p.m.

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2010-07-11 19:47

Tutorial: Event Processing Architectures at DEBS 2010

Corporate Semantic Web at DEBS 2010 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

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Latest Publication

Linked Data Authoring for Non-Experts

Markus Luczak-Rösch and Ralf Heese, Linked Data on the Web Workshop at WWW2009, Madrid, Spain, April 20, 2009

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This work has been partially supported by the  InnoProfile-Corporate Semantic Web project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the BMBF Innovation Initiative for the New German Länder - Entrepreneurial Regions.