WonderWeb

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WonderWeb

• Ontology Infrastructure for the
• Semantic Web

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WonderWeb ConsortiumAcademic Partners

• University of Manchester (VUM), Manchester, UK
  (co-ordinator)
• Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VUA), Amsterdam,
  Netherlands
• ISTC-CNR (ISTC), Trento, Italy
• AIFB University of Karslruhe (AIFB), Karlsruhe,
  Germany

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WonderWeb ConsortiumIndustrial Advisory Board

• Dr. V. Richard Benjamins, iSOCO
• Dr. J. Bullock, Canon Research
• Richard Chen, InGenuity Systems
• Peter Crowther, Network Inference
• Ian Davis, Photonica, London, UK
• Dr. John Davies, BT
• Robert Engels, CognIT
• Dr. Einar H. Fredriksson, IOS Press
• Masahiro Hori, Ph.D., IBM Tokyo
• Ian Lang, Assistum
• Alain Léger, France Telecom
• Robin McEntire, GlaxoSmithKline

• Drs. J. van der Meer, aidministrator
• Peter F. Patel-Schneider, Lucent
• Dr. A. Persidis, biovista
• Hans-Peter Schnurr, ontoprise
• Massimo Soroldoni, Nomos Systems
• Prof. Austin Tate, AKT project
• Arthur J. Thomas, Ph.D., BioWisdom
• Dr. Luca Toldo, Merck KGaA
• Dr. Michael Uschold, Boeing
• Guido Vetere, IBM Rome Tivoli Labs
• Matthew West, Shell
• Mario Wolczko, Sun Microsystems

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Project Objectives
Develop methodology and toolkit supporting Web
based ontological engineering

• Language architecture
• Ontology language design and standardisation
• Technical infrastructure
• Component based architecture and uniform API
• Foundational ontologies
• Ontology library and design methodologies
• Ontological engineering methodologies
• Versioning and modularisation frameworks

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January 2003 Highlights

• OWL language developmentOWL about to achieve W3C
  candidate recommendation status
• KAON server prototype
• Range of tools and services including OilEd, LiFT
  etc.
• Ontology roadmap and DOLCE reference module
• OntoView versioning system and WonderWeb change
  ontology
• Demonstration using ontology development scenario
  to illustrate interactions between different
  WPs/components

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Demo Scenario (Jan 2003)
FaCT
OntoDiff
Change report
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January 2004 Highlights

• OWL now a fully fledged W3C standard (Feb 10,
  2004)
• Pioneering work on OWL rule and query languages
• Extended library of foundational and domain
  ontologies
• Review of design methodologies and quality
  criteria
• Formal framework representing reasoning with
  modular ontologies
• Change management extended to distributed
  ontologies
• KAON server and OWL API integrate range of
  components
• OilEd, Sesame, FaCT, Racer, LiFT,
• New FaCT inference engine

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2004 Demo Scenario
FaCT
OntoDiff
Change report
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2004
FaCT
OntoDiff
Change report
10
2004
FaCT
OntoDiff
Change report
11
2004
Library of ontologies now available
Library of foundationalontologies
FaCT
OntoDiff
Change report
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2004
Library of ontologies now available
Library of foundationalontologies
FaCT
OntoDiff
Change report
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2004
Library of ontologies now available
Library of foundationalontologies
OntoDiff
Change report
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2004
KAON Server
Library of ontologies now available
Library of foundationalontologies
OntoDiff
Change report
KAON Server provides access to components
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2004
KAON Server
Registry
Library of ontologies now available
Library of foundationalontologies
Ontology-Based Registry supports query for
components.
OntoDiff
Change report
KAON Server provides access to components
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2004
KAON Server
Registry
Library of ontologies now available
Library of foundationalontologies
Ontology-Based Registry supports query for
components.
OntoDiff
Change report
Evolution Management methodology extends
versioning support
KAON Server provides access to components