Using Semantic Web Tools for Context Interchange

8 Pages Posted: 17 Dec 2007

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Stuart Madnick

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

Mihai Lupu

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Date Written: September 2007

Abstract

The Context Interchange Strategy (COIN) is an approach to solving the problem of interoperability of semantically heterogeneous data sources through context mediation. The existing implementation of COIN uses its own notation and syntax for representing ontologies. More recently, the OWL Web Ontology Language is becoming established as the W3C recommended ontology language. A bridge is needed between these two areas and an explanation on how each of the two approaches can learn from each other. We propose the use of the COIN strategy to solve context disparity and ontology interoperability problems in the emerging Semantic Web both at the ontology level and at the data level. In this work we showcase how the problems that arise from context-dependent representation of facts can be mitigated by Semantic Web techniques, as tools of the conceptual framework developed over 15 years of COIN research.

Keywords: Web Ontology Language, Semantic Web

Suggested Citation

Madnick, Stuart E. and Lupu, Mihai, Using Semantic Web Tools for Context Interchange (September 2007). MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4668-07, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1075245 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1075245

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Mihai Lupu

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