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The process of manually inserting data in ontology instances is usually a cumbersome activity. Editing complex domain ontologies using Protégé and similar tools requires expert knowledge. Despite exhaustive research in this area, the existing ontology population tools are still not user-friendly enough to simplify this activity for end-users. To facilitate this process, we propose an approach to design an ontology to serve as a meta-model for the generation of user interface models. The user interface models are used to create web applications with dialog-based HTML forms, which are eventually used to populate instances of OWL ontologies. Our meta-model includes several patterns used to generate programming control structures used to populate ontology instances. On the one hand, the meta-model describes user interfaces, and on the other hand, it describes the structure of the output ontology instance. We also show a prototype of a tool that loads a simple meta-model file and creates a single-page application that populates an ontology instance.
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In the originally published version of chapter 9 the two references were incomplete. The references [5] and [9] have been extended in the revised version.
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Rutesic, P., Radonjic-Simic, M., Pfisterer, D. (2021). An Enhanced Meta-model to Generate Web Forms for Ontology Population. In: Villazón-Terrazas, B., Ortiz-Rodríguez, F., Tiwari, S., Goyal, A., Jabbar, M. (eds) Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web. KGSWC 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1459. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91305-2_9
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