Description of the data in the university domain using semantic web technologies


Abstract in English

In the few recent years, besides the traditional web a new web has appeared. It is called the Web of Linked Data. It has been developed to present data in a machinereadable form. The main idea is to describe data using a set of terms called web ontology. At this time, tools and standards related to the semantic web are becoming comprehensive and stable; however, publishing university data as linked data still faces some major challenges. First of all, there is no unified, well-accepted vocabulary for describing university-related information. This article aims to find the ontology which could be used to describe the data in the university domain, so it could be possible to integrate this data with data from other universities and do queries on it. The web ontology was built by reusing the available vocabularies on the web and adding new classes and properties. The ontology has been organized by using Protégé.

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