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In the context of Semantic Web Search Engines is becoming crucial to study relations between ontologies to improve the ontology selection task. In this paper, we describe DOOR - The Descriptive Ontology of Ontology Relations, to represent, manipulate and reason upon relations between ontologies in large ontology repositories. DOOR represents a first attempt in describing and formalizing ontology relations. In fact, it does not pretend to be a universal standard structure. Rather, It is intended to be a flexible, easily modifiable structure to model ontology relations in the context of ontology repositories. Here, we provide a detailed description of the methodology used to design the DOOR ontology, as well as an overview of its content. We also describe how DOOR is used in a complete framework (called KANNEL) for detecting and managing semantic relations between ontologies in large ontology repositories. Applied in the context of a large collection of automatically crawled ontologies, DOOR and KANNEL provide a starting point for analyzing the underlying structure of the network of ontologies that is the Semantic Web.
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Allocca, C., d’Aquin, M., Motta, E. (2011). Towards a Formalization of Ontology Relations in the Context of Ontology Repositories. In: Fred, A., Dietz, J.L.G., Liu, K., Filipe, J. (eds) Knowledge Discovery, Knowlege Engineering and Knowledge Management. IC3K 2009. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 128. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19032-2_12
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