Open AccessOntologies for Corporate Web Applications
Author(s) -
Obrst Leo,
Liu Howard,
Wray Robert
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
ai magazine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.597
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 2371-9621
pISSN - 0738-4602
DOI - 10.1609/aimag.v24i3.1718
Subject(s) - ontology , computer science , idef5 , ontology components , semantics (computer science) , semantic web , domain (mathematical analysis) , focus (optics) , world wide web , product (mathematics) , knowledge management , open biomedical ontologies , upper ontology , data science , information retrieval , ontology alignment , mathematical analysis , philosophy , physics , geometry , mathematics , epistemology , optics , programming language
In this article, 1 we discuss some issues that arise when ontologies are used to support corporate application domains such as electronic commerce (e‐commerce) and some technical problems in deploying ontologies for real‐world use. In particular, we focus on issues of ontology integration and the related problem of semantic mapping, that is, the mapping of ontologies and taxonomies to reference ontologies to preserve semantics. Along the way, we discuss what typically constitutes an ontology architecture. We situate the discussion in the domain of business‐to‐business (B2B) e‐commerce. By its very nature, B2B e‐commerce must try to interlink buyers and sellers from multiple companies with disparate product‐description terminologies and meanings, thus serving as a paradigmatic case for the use of ontologies to support corporate applications.