In this chapter, we clearly define the relationships of the
primitives in different ontology languages, and this will help to translate the single
namespace to the proper namespaces. In this way, the efficiency of the ontology
design can be improved.
Moreover, the ontologies are presently designed by different organizations for their
own purposes. If we can organize all of these ontologies in an integrated environment,
we can improve the usability of ontologies, and the semantic information in
the Semantic Web and e-business can be processed more efficiently.
Ontology.Language. Organization
In this chapter, we mainly focus on the theoretical analysis of organizing ontology
languages and ontologies with hierarchies, so that this method can be widely used
to organize different ontology languages and ontologies, though we implement a
prototype tool to organize ontology languages and ontologies in the ???Architecture???
section.
There already exist practical tools, for example, Daml2owl (Amin & Morbach,
2005), and so forth, that allow the translation from one language to another, but these
tools are not general ones.
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