POAF: Portable Ontology Aligned Fragments
Yannis Kalfoglou, Paul Richard Smart, Dave Braines, Nigel Shadbolt · ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) · 2008
Abstract In today’s semantic web, ontology fragmentation and mo-dularization are considered as important tasks due to the size and co-mplexity of prime ontologies. At the same time, the ontology alignment community thrives with solutions for discovering and producing align-ments between semantically related concepts. However, these are seldom used in bulk and their subsequent re-use is somewhat problematic. In this paper we set to explore these issues from a practical viewpoint: use ontology alignments to inform an ontology fragmentation strategy for the benefit of exposing and distributing rich ontology aligned fragments. 1