Multi-représentation d'une ontologie : OWL, bases de données, systèmes de types et d'objets.

Mireille Arnoux (1) , Thierry Despeyroux (2)

1 LIMI - Laboratoire Langages et Interfaces pour Machines Intelligentes
2 AxIS - Usage-centered design, analysis and improvement of information systems

Due to the emergence of the semantic Web and the increasing need to formalize human knowledge, ontologie engineering is now an important activity. But is this activity very different from other ones like software engineering, for example ? In this paper, we investigate analogies between ontologies on one hand, types, objects and data bases on the other one, taking into account the notion of evolution of an ontology. We represent a unique ontology using different paradigms, and observe that the distance between these different concepts is small. We deduce from this constatation that ontologies and more specifically ontology description languages can take advantage of beeing fertilizated with some other computer science domains and inherit important characteristics as modularity, for example.

Mots clés: Ontology engineering; Knowledge modeling; Semantic Web

Domaines: Recherche d'information [cs.IR]

Mireille Arnoux, Thierry Despeyroux. Multi-représentation d'une ontologie : OWL, bases de données, systèmes de types et d'objets.. Journées Francophones sur les Ontologies, Dec 2009, Poitiers, France. ⟨inria-00586069⟩