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τOWL-Manager: A Tool for Managing Temporal Semantic Web Documents in the τOWL Framework

Authors:
Abir Zekri
Zouhaier Brahmia
Fabio Grandi
Rafik Bouaziz

Keywords: Semantic Web; Ontology; OWL 2; τXSchema; Logical annotations; Physical annotations; Temporal database; XML Schema; XML

Abstract:
Several semantic web-based applications (e.g., e-commerce, e-government and e-health applications) require temporal versioning of ontology instances, in order to represent, store and retrieve time-varying ontologies. However, commercial systems do not provide any support for creating and updating temporal ontologies. In this paper, we propose a prototype system, named Temporal OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Manager (τOWL-Manager), which implements our τOWL framework and supports temporal versioning of ontology instances. It allows (i) creating and validating a temporal semantic web document, by augmenting an OWL 2 ontology schema with a set of logical and physical annotations, and (ii) creating and maintaining time-varying ontology instance documents, by generating a new timestamped version of each ontology instance document when updates are applied.

Pages: 56 to 64

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: July 19, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4510

ISBN: 978-1-61208-420-6

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from July 19, 2015 to July 24, 2015