ESWC 2010 Workshop on Ontology Repositories and Editors for the Semantic Web
From the workshop website:
(Note: Workshop: May 30 or 31, 2010)
The number of ontologies being built and made available for reuse has increased steadily in the last few years. While being a foundation for the Semantic Web, this new environment where ontologies are shared and interlinked online also poses new challenges; fostering thus a number of research projects aiming to understand, amongst others, ontology reuse, storage, publication, retrieval and modularization. Indeed, the growing number of online ontologies makes the availability of ontology repositories, in which ontology practitioners can easily find, select and retrieve reusable components, a crucial issue. The recent emergence of several ontology repository systems is a further sign of this. However, in order for these systems to be successful, it is necessary to provide a forum for researchers and developers to discuss features and exchange ideas on the realization of ontology repositories in general and to consider explicitly their role in the ontology lifecycle. In addition, it is now critical to achieve interoperability between ontology repositories, through common interfaces, standard metadata formats, etc. ORES10 intends to provide such a forum.
Submit your research paper, position paper or software demo by March 1, 2010 discussing some of the following questions:
- How can ontology repositories “talk” to each other?
- How can the abundant and complex knowledge contained in an ontology repository
- be made comprehensible for users?
- What is the role of ontology repositories in the ontology lifecycle?
- How can branching and versioning be managed in and across ontology repositories?
- How can ontology repositories interoperate with ontology editors, and other
- applications and legacy systems?
- How can connections across ontologies be managed within and across ontology
- repositories?
- How can modularity be better supported in ontology repositories and editors?
- How can ontology repositories and editors use distributed reasoning?
- How can ontology repositories support corporate, national and domain specific semantic infrastructures?
- How do ontology repositories support novel semantic applications?
- What measurements for describing and comparing ontologies can we use? How could ontology repositories use these?
