From metadata application profiles to semantic profiling: Ontology refinement and profiling to strengthen inference-based queries on the semantic web

International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 268-280

  Koutsomitropoulos, Dimitrios ^a   Paloukis, George ^a   Papatheodorou, Theodore S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Application profiles; Cultural heritage; Inference; Interoperability; Metadata; Ontologies; Semantic profiling; Semantic web

Indexed keywords

BIRDS; INTEROPERABILITY; METADATA; ONTOLOGY;

CIDOC CRM; CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURES; CULTURAL HERITAGES; DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION; INFERENCE; ONTOLOGY DEVELOPMENT; REASONING TASKS; SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE;

SEMANTIC WEB;

EID: 47649107673     PISSN: 17442621     EISSN: 1744263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMSO.2007.019445     Document Type: Article

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