Creating Proprietary Terms Using Lightweight Ontology: A Case Study on Acquisition Phase in a Cyber Forensic Process.
Tamer Fares Gayed, Hakim Lounis, Moncef Bari · Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering · 2014
Terms and their meaning connections provided by the Resource Description Framework (RDF) present nowadays the standard mechanism for Linking Data (LD) on the web. All the existing terms, whether they are built-in terms (imported from well-known vocabularies on the semantic web) or proprietary terms (custom terms created by data publisher) can be used to describe and link different things in the world through RDF statements, and by applying the general architecture of the World Wide Web known as Linked Data Principles (LDP). Sometimes, these existing terms are not enough and adequate to describe a particular data set; more proprietary terms need to be created and developed in a dedicated vocabulary using lightweight ontology of LD. The latter uses the constructors of Resource Description Framework Schema (RDFS) and little features from Web Ontology Language (OWL) to create new proprietary terms describing such data set. This idea is depicted in this paper through a phase retrieved from a Cyber Forensic (CF) process, called acquisition phase, where different forensic tasks need to be described using new proprietary terms. This paper explains how these new proprietary terms can be created and published using the constructors of the lightweight ontology to describe this forensic phase. Keywords—Linked Data; Linked Data Principles; Resource Description Framework Schemas; Web Ontology Language; Proprietary Terms; Cyber Forensic; State Preservation.