MOD: A Metadata for Ontology Description and Publication

Date: Feb 3, 2017

Speaker: Biswanath Dutta

Abstract

Today there are an enormous number of ontologies available on the Web. However even then, finding and identifying the right ontology is not an easy task. This is because the majority of the ontologies are either not described or described with a general-purpose metadata vocabulary like Dublin Core. On the other hand, ontology construction, irrespective of its types (e.g., general ontology, domain ontology, application ontology), is an expensive affair both in terms of human resources and other infrastructural resources. Hence, the ideal situation would be to reuse the existing ontologies to reduce the development effort and cost, and also to improve the quality of the original ontology. Towards this now it is quite a long time that we are working on an ontology metadata vocabulary called MOD, a metadata for ontology description and publication. The first version of MOD (1.0) was published in September 2015. Currently, we are working on MOD 1.2. In this seminar, we aim to communicate the MOD framework, the guiding principles, and methodology we followed in designing the vocabulary. We also provide the current state of the vocabulary MOD1.2.

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