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OntoJIT: Parsing Native OWL DL into Executable Ontologies in an Object Oriented Paradigm

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OWL: Experiences and Directions – Reasoner Evaluation (OWLED 2016, ORE 2016)

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Abstract

Despite meriting the growing consensus between researchers and practitioners of ontology modeling, the Web Ontology Language OWL still has a modest presence in the communities of “traditional” web developers and software engineers. This resulted in hoarding the semantic web field in a rather small circle of people with a certain profile of expertise. In this paper we present OntoJIT, our novel approach toward a democratized semantic web where we bring OWL ontologies into the comfort-zone of end-application developers. We focus particularly on parsing OWL source files into executable ontologies in an object oriented programming paradigm. We finally demonstrate the dynamic code-base created as the result of parsing some reference OWL DL ontologies.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    www.protege.stanford.edu/ontologies/pizza/pizza.owl.

  2. 2.

    www.w3.org/TR/owl-guide/wine.rdf.

  3. 3.

    OpenRDF, http://www.openrdf.org/.

  4. 4.

    https://bitbucket.org/openrdf/alibaba.

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Baset, S., Stoffel, K. (2017). OntoJIT: Parsing Native OWL DL into Executable Ontologies in an Object Oriented Paradigm. In: Dragoni, M., Poveda-Villalón, M., Jimenez-Ruiz, E. (eds) OWL: Experiences and Directions – Reasoner Evaluation. OWLED ORE 2016 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10161. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54627-8_1

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