OntoEditor: um editor para manipular ontologias na web.

Abstract

The continuous growth of the Web usage has given rise to new service needs even more specialized and independent from the human interference. Researches takes the consensus that, to reach this level of intelligence, the applications must have a support that can help in the semantic understanding of the available information on the Web. In this way, the available Web data, could incorporate information that represents it and other pieces of syntactic information that takes semantic characteristics, creating, in this way, a new layer of information. In order to support this new structure, the concept of ontologies has been used. In a very simple way, a ontology could be considered as a vocabulary that keep the necessary information to give semantic support to various services and applications. In our dissertation, we present a new tool which deals with ontologies in the Web and that varies a little from the ones we have nowadays, integrating access to a data base, with facilities to check and deal with the stored ontologies. We present also a new way to redefine and graphically represent the ontologies that have been created by their users.