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Ontology Translation Approaches for Interoperability: A Case Study with Protégé-2000 and WebODE

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Engineering Knowledge in the Age of the Semantic Web (EKAW 2004)

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We describe four ontology translation approaches that can be used to exchange ontologies between ontology tools and/or ontology languages. These approaches are analysed with regard to two main features: how they preserve the ontology semantics after the translation process (aka semantic or consequence preservation) and how they allow final users and ontology-based applications to understand the resulting ontology in the target format (aka pragmatic preservation). These approaches are illustrated with practical examples that show how they can be applied to achieve interoperability between the ontology tools Protégé-2000 and WebODE.

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  1. Ontological Engineering Group, Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial, Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo, s/n., 28660, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain

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  1. Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

    Enrico Motta

  2. Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK

    Nigel R Shadbolt

  3. Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, UK

    Arthur Stutt

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Corcho, O., Gómez-Pérez, A. (2004). Ontology Translation Approaches for Interoperability: A Case Study with Protégé-2000 and WebODE. In: Motta, E., Shadbolt, N.R., Stutt, A., Gibbins, N. (eds) Engineering Knowledge in the Age of the Semantic Web. EKAW 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3257. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30202-5_3

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