Anna V. Zhdanova

An Approach to Ontology Construction

And its Application to Community Portals

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The goal of the work presented here is to identify current limitations of communityportals, introduce community-driven ontology management as a new approach toontology construction and demonstrate the added value to community portals of beingcommunity-driven. The three main parts of the work are (i) the development of aframework allowing and motivating collaborative ontology construction and reuse for theend users (a person and a community), (ii) building a prototype on the basis of thisspecification, namely the People's portal, and (iii) the application of the developedinfrastructure to scenarios in semantically-enhanced community portals with theinvolvement of real users.The development of the framework for community-driven ontology management isaimed at enriching with community-supporting features the established practices forontology management in the areas of ontology development and population, storage,matching and versioning. The objective of community-driven ontology management is toprovide the means and motivations for a large number of users to "weave" and adopt theSemantic Web.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller / VDM Verlag Dr. Müller e.K.
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 261g
• ISBN-13: 9783836481717
• ISBN-10: 3836481715
• Artikelnr.: 23552517

Autorenporträt

Anna V. Zhdanova§Dr. Anna V. Zhdanova is a Senior Researcher at ftw. Telecommunications Research Center Vienna. She worked at University of Surrey, UK, and at STI Innsbruck/DERI, Austria. Her doctoral degree is in Informatics, University of Innsbruck, Austria. Her specialist degree is in Mathematics and Computer Science, Novosibirsk State University, Russia.