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RDF/XTM Ontology Construction Based on a Topic Maps-Driven Framework

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Digital Libraries: Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities (ICADL 2006)

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Ontology construction plays an important role in many semantically working environments, such as knowledge management systems and digital libraries. The efficiency, quality, and comprehensiveness of the construction process highly depends on the employed development framework. In this paper, we propose a Topic Maps-driven framework, called XRVAT, to alleviate the cumbersome construction procedure and generate both RDF/XTM ontologies with an effective XTM-to-RDF translation kernel. This paper briefly presents its design and an operational example.

This work was supported in part by National Science Council of R.O.C. under grant NSC 95-2815-C-155-019-E, and 95-2745-E-155-008-URD.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan, R.O.C.

    Cheng-Zen Yang, Ing-Xiang Chen, Chun-Hua Chou & Meng-Chia Yang

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  1. University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 1-2, Ibaraki, Japan

    Shigeo Sugimoto

  2. The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

    Jane Hunter

  3. Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

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  4. Research Center for Knowledge Communities, University of Tsukuba, 305-8550, Ibaraki, Japan

    Atsuyuki Morishima

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Yang, CZ., Chen, IX., Chou, CH., Yang, MC. (2006). RDF/XTM Ontology Construction Based on a Topic Maps-Driven Framework. In: Sugimoto, S., Hunter, J., Rauber, A., Morishima, A. (eds) Digital Libraries: Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities. ICADL 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4312. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11931584_63

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