The use of ontologies to represent knowledge provides us with organization, communication
and reusability. The concepts and relations managed by any scientific community need to be …

The Semantic Web emerged with the vision of eased integration of heterogeneous,
distributed data on the Web. The approach fundamentally relies on the linkage between and …

In the last few years, the Semantic Web gained scientific acceptance as the means of
sharing knowledge in different domains, and the cornerstone of the Semantic Web is …

Background Ontologies and controlled terminologies have become increasingly important in
biomedical research. Researchers use ontologies to annotate their data with ontology terms …

Problems resulting from the management of shared, distributed knowledge has led to
ontologies being employed as a solution, in order to effectively integrate information across …

Ontology reuse aims to foster interoperability and facilitate knowledge reuse. Several
approaches are typically evaluated by ontology engineers when bootstrapping a new …

The problem that ontology learning deals with is the knowledge acquisition bottleneck, that
is to say the difficulty to actually model the knowledge relevant to the domain of interest …

Cultural heritage images are among the primary media for communicating and preserving
the cultural values of a society. The images represent concrete and abstract content and …

The increasing importance of ontologies has resulted in the development of a large number
of ontologies in both coordinated and non-coordinated efforts. The number and complexity …

Understanding which ontology characteristics can predict a “good” quality ontology, is a core
and ongoing task in the Semantic Web. In this paper, we provide our findings on which …