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Ontology-Based Information System

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Semantic Technology (JIST 2013)

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We describe a novel way for creating information systems based on ontologies. The described solution is aimed at domain experts who would benefit from being able to quickly prototype fully-functional, web-based information system for data input, editing and analysis. The systems backbone is SPARQL 1.1 endpoint that enables organization users to view and edit the data, while outside users can get read-only access to the endpoint. The system prototype is implemented and successfully tested with Latvian medical data ontology with 60 classes and imported 5 000 000 data-level triples.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    We use Virtuoso (http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/) endpoint which implements RDFS reasoning and supports SPARQL 1.1. We considered StarDog endpoint with full OWL reasoning, but it does not support SPARQL 1.1 update.

  2. 2.

    http://vocab.deri.ie/

  3. 3.

    http://protege.stanford.edu/

  4. 4.

    Although inverse object properties are available in OWL, their inference is not supported by SPARQL endpoint such as Virtuoso. Therefore, it is more convenient to allow navigating object properties bi-directionally.

  5. 5.

    We use Virtuoso endpoint - http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/.

  6. 6.

    http://viziquer.lumii.lv

  7. 7.

    GWT (Google Web Toolkit) - https://developers.google.com/web-toolkit/.

  8. 8.

    GXT (Google Extended Toolkit) - http://www.sencha.com/products/gxt.

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    http://jena.apache.org/

  10. 10.

    http://tomcat.apache.org/

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    http://framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu

  12. 12.

    http://knoodl.com

  13. 13.

    http://apex.oracle.com/

  14. 14.

    http://www.sqlmaestro.com/

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Acknowledgments

Mārtiņš Zviedris has been supported within the European Social Fund Project “Support for Doctoral Studies at University of Latvia - 2”. Aiga Romāne and Kārlis Čerāns have been supported by the European Union via European Regional Development Fund Project No. 2011/0009/2DP/2.1.1.1.0/10/APIA/VIAA/112. Guntis Bārzdiņš has been supported by Latvian 2010–2013. National Research Program Nr.2 project Nr.5.

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    Martins Zviedris, Aiga Romane, Guntis Barzdins & Karlis Cerans

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Zviedris, M., Romane, A., Barzdins, G., Cerans, K. (2014). Ontology-Based Information System. In: Kim, W., Ding, Y., Kim, HG. (eds) Semantic Technology. JIST 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8388. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06826-8_3

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