MUTU: An Analysis Tool for Maintaining a System of Hierarchically Linked Ontologie
We consider ontology evolution in a system of light weight Linked Data ontologies, aligned with each other to form
a large global ontology. When changes occurs in one ontology, it is difficult for the human editor to keep track of what actually has been changed and what modifications in related ontologies may be needed, in order to keep the system consistent.
Using MUTU, such changes and their potential effects to other ontologies can be found.
Such an analysis in useful for the ontology editors to understand the differences between ontology versions, and
for updating related ontologies when changes in other components of the ontology system occur.
Contact
Sini Pessala
Aalto University
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Matias Frosterus
Aalto University
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Prof. Eero Hyvönen
Aalto University and University of Helsinki
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Publications
2015
2014
2013
Matias Frosterus, Jouni Tuominen, Sini Pessala, Katri Seppälä and Eero Hyvönen:
Linked Open Ontology Cloud KOKO--Managing a System of Cross-domain Lightweight Ontologies.
The Semantic Web: ESWC 2013 Satellite Events, pp. 296-297, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, Montpellier, France, May 26-30, 2013.
bib pdf 2011
Sini Pessala, Katri Seppälä, Osma Suominen, Matias Frosterus, Jouni Tuominen and Eero Hyvönen:
MUTU: An Analysis Tool for Maintaining a System of Hierarchically Linked Ontologies.
ISWC 2011 - Ontologies come of Age Workshop (OCAS), Bonn, Germany, October, 2011.
bib pdf We consider ontology evolution in a system of light-weight Linked Data ontologies, aligned with each other to form a larger ontology system. When one ontology changes, the human editor must keep track of the actual changes and of the modifications needed in the related ontologies in order to keep the system consistent. This paper presents an analysis tool MUTU, by which such changes and their potential effects on other ontologies can be found. Such an analysis is useful for the ontology editors for understanding the differences between ontology versions, and for updating linked ontologies when changes occurred in other components of an ontology system.
