On2broker in a Nutshell
Dieter Fensel, Andreas Witt, Jürgen Angele, Stefan Decker, Michael A. Erdmann, Hans-Peter Schnurr, Steffen Staab, Rudi Studer · 1998
. On2broker provides brokering services to improve access to heterogeneous, distributed and semistructured information sources as they are presented in the World Wide Web. It relies on the use of ontologies to make explicit the semantics of web pages, to formulate queries and to derive answers for them. In the poster we will sketch its main purpose and the general architecture of On2broker. In the area of knowledge-based systems ontologies have been developed for structuring and reusing large bodies of knowledge (cf. CYC [Lenat, 1995], KIF/Ontolingua [KIF], (KA) 2 [Benjamins et al., 1998]). Ontologies are consensual and formal specification of a vocabulary used to describe a specific domain. On2broker uses such ontologies to improve access to information provided in intranets and in the internet. It uses semantic information for guiding the query answering process. It provides the answers with a welldefined syntax and semantics that can be directly understood and further processed by...