Where to publish and find ontologies? A survey of ontology libraries

Journal of Web Semantics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2012, Pages 96-111

  D'Aquin, Mathieu ^a   Noy, Natalya F ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ontology; Ontology library; Survey

Indexed keywords

INTEROPERABILITY; LIBRARIES; SURVEYING; SURVEYS;

APPLICATION DEVELOPERS; CORE SET; CRITICAL COMPONENT; DATA INTEROPERABILITY; DATA-SOURCES; RESEARCH CHALLENGES;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 84857791855     PISSN: 15708268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.websem.2011.08.005     Document Type: Short Survey

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