Proposing an Integrated Multi Source Ontology Construction Methodology

Document Type : Semantic Technology-Kahani

Authors

• omid milanifard ¹
• Mohsen Kahani ²

¹ Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology (IRANDOC), Tehran, Iran.

² Department of Computer Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.

10.22067/cke.2020.39289

Abstract

The goal of this research is to create a reference data model for educational and research institutes of Iranian Ministry of Sciences, Research, and Technology. After investigating existing technologies and considering the problem context, ontology was chosen as the data model format. In order to create the target ontology, an ontology construction methodology was designed and implemented. This methodology is created using design science research method and contains an architecture, a detailed workflow process, a guideline for performing 1each step, and related softwares in an integrated web-based system. The designed system is implemented in PHP and is available as open source. The system is used as the main tool to construct the target ontology. The proposed methodology leverages the three main knowledge sources including textual documents, existing ontologies in the higher education domain, and reverse engineering of a relational database of an integrated university system. The resulted product of this methodology was evaluated based on the data requirements of the Ministry of Sciences, Research, and Technology, and its shortcomings were resolved. The novelty of this work is both on the generated product, that is, a localized reference data model, and an ontology construction methodology.

Keywords

• Ontology Development
• Higher Education Ontology
• Ontology Learning

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