Malaysia Indigenous Herbs Knowledge Representation
Zulazeze Sahri, Sharifalillah Nordin, Haryani Harun · Universiti Utara Malaysia Institutional Repository (Universiti Utara Malaysia) · 2012
The values of Malaysia indigenous herbs are not limited to its medicinal benefits but also in local and traditional knowledge of each herb.However, this knowledge is scattered and unorganized in internet and merely own by local people that led to difficulty in designing knowledge based system.This paper proposed a Malaysia indigenous herbs knowledge representation and its implementation in Web Ontology Language (OWL) using Protégé 4.2. The herbs knowledge mainly in preparation methods and plants part uses is collected from literatures and experts in herbal field.Additional interview session is conducted with expert to validate the information gathered.In order to ensure the knowledge model and ontology view is well defined, a prototype of knowledge based system is developed based on the ontology classes or concepts and relationships defined which requires conversion the OWL ontology into the relational database system at first hand.