Salaat Ontology: A Domain Ontology for Modeling Information Related to Prayers in Islam
Noman Islam, Kashif Laeeq · Indian Journal of Science and Technology · 2019
Objectives: This work is directed towards development of a domain ontology and a semantic tool for Muslim’s prayer called Salaat. Methods/Statistical Analysis: The proposed ontology has been developed on Protégé tool based on TODE, a test driven ontology development methodology. A prototype application has been developed on JENA semantic web toolkit for the utilization of Salaat ontology. Findings: The proposed ontology comprises 113 concepts and 85 properties. A set of 40 queries were run to analyze the accuracy of proposed ontology. All the queries were successfully executed and extracted the desired information. Application/Improvements: The proposed tool can help a novice user to gain knowledge about Salaat (Islamic prayer). It becomes very easy to get the precise information through keyword based search. Keywords: Domain Ontology, Islam, Ontology, Prayer, Salaat