Building an operational product ontology system

Lee, Taehee; Lee, Ig-hoon; Lee, Suekyung; Lee, Sang-goo; Kim, Dongkyu; Chun, Joohwan; Lee, Hyun-Ja; Shim, Junho

doi:10.1016/j.elerap.2005.08.005

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“…practices to avoid, rather than practices to emulate, as can be seen elsewhere beyond the domain of government. For example, a case study of the development of an ontology to support the interoperability of electronic product catalogues takes the reader through the stages of domain analysis, modelling entities in the domain, and establishing relationships between entities [21]. A close reading of the work reveals, however, that the building of the ontology appears to have been a means of arriving at a relational database schema, not least because the goal of the exercise was to build an operational procurement catalogue.…”

Section: Theory and Practice Of Ontological Development As Published mentioning

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Ontology definition and construction, and epistemological adequacy for systems interoperability: A practitioner analysis

Lumsden

Hall

Cruickshank

2011

Journal of Information Science

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Ontology development is considered to be a useful approach to the design and implementation of interoperable systems. This literature review and commentary examines the current state of knowledge in this field with particular reference to processes involved in assuring epistemological adequacy. It takes the perspective of the information systems practitioner keen to adopt a systematic approach to in-house ontology design, taking into consideration previously published work. The study arises from author involvement in an integration/interoperability project on systems that support Scottish Common Housing Registers in which, ultimately, ontological modelling was not deployed. Issues concerning the agreement of meaning, and the implications for the creation of interoperable systems, are discussed. The extent to which those theories, methods and frameworks provide practitioners with a usable set of tools is explored, and examples of practical applications of ontological modelling are noted. The findings from the review of the literature demonstrate a number of difficulties faced by information systems practitioners keen to develop and deploy domain ontologies. A major problem is deciding which broad approach to take: to rely on automatic ontology construction techniques, or to rely on key words and domain experts to develop ontologies.

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Section: Theory and Practice Of Ontological Development As Published mentioning

confidence: 99%

Ontology definition and construction, and epistemological adequacy for systems interoperability: A practitioner analysis

Lumsden

Hall

Cruickshank

2011

Journal of Information Science

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“…The semantics of representing products and services themselves is now pretty well understood, and there exist prototypes from controlled B2B settings [4][5][6] and general products and services ontologies in the official ontology languages for the Semantic Web, namely eClassOWL [7] and a similar ontology unspscOWL, which is awaiting copyright clearance. However, all of these components alone do not yet provide the means required for e-commerce on the Semantic Web.…”

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“…In short, we currently lack a non-toy ontology that allows describing the relationship between (1) Web resources, (2) offerings made by means of those Web resources, (3) legal entities, (4) prices, (5) terms and conditions, and the aforementioned ontologies for products and services (6).…”

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GoodRelations: An Ontology for Describing Products and Services Offers on the Web

Hepp

2008

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract.A promising application domain for Semantic Web technology is the annotation of products and services offerings on the Web so that consumers and enterprises can search for suitable suppliers using products and services ontologies. While there has been substantial progress in developing ontologies for types of products and services, namely eClassOWL, this alone does not provide the representational means required for e-commerce on the Semantic Web. Particularly missing is an ontology that allows describing the relationships between (1) Web resources, (2) offerings made by means of those Web resources, (3) legal entities, (4) prices, (5) terms and conditions, and the aforementioned ontologies for products and services (6). For example, we must be able to say that a particular Web site describes an offer to sell cell phones of a certain make an model at a certain price, that a piano house offers maintenance for pianos that weigh less than 150 kg, or that a car rental company leases out cars of a certain make and model from a set of branches across the country. In this paper, we analyze the complexity of product description on the Semantic Web and define the GoodRelations ontology that covers the representational needs of typical business scenarios for commodity products and services.

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“…The attributes of a model for electronic catalogs has been numerated in [11] and then semantic model has been proposed for classifying products in catalogs. This model was used as a reference model for implementing product ontologies [12]. In this implementation, ontology model has been mapped to relational databases.…”

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Designing A Catalog Management System– An Ontology Approach

Farsani

Nematbakhsh

2007

MJCS

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When enterprises collaborate, a common frame of understanding of all products and catalogs in each organization INTRODUCTIONProduct information (often in the form of e-catalogs) is an essential component in e-commerce. Clear and precise products and services definition is a necessary foundation for collaborative business processes. By sharing a precise product model containing rich semantics, a high level of interoperability can be offered for e-business systems. One possibility for improvement is dramatically improved supply chained management with more accurate and up-todate information on current inventories and demands. More accurate product plans can be formed with significant saving in costs.However, researches have shown that searching products on Internet is a difficult process [1]. Customers find their requirements with some difficulty and in most cases they give up their product searching. Consequently, e-catalogs cannot fulfill their duty successfully. One of the factors for this lack of success is the existence of unstructured product information and huge bulk of this information with no search tool. Most companies believe that the existence of more information such as multimedia product information will help to attract more customers, but it is mostly confusing to the customers. Therefore, in order to make use of the maximum potential of markets, providing a comprehensive approach to the organization and presentation of product information is necessary.The paper-based catalogs form the basis of the electronic catalogs. The paper-based catalogs have facilitated purchasing from customers. These catalogs have colored and structured presentation of products. E-catalogs are direct translation of the paper-based catalogs to the electronic type. Their styles gradually change with respect to the type of information they carry. The first type of the electronic product catalogs was the compact disk-based catalogs. Most of them are still not online, but in comparison with the paper-based catalogs, they have a sophisticated search functionality and also can present the multimedia presentation of the products [2].IEPCs (Internet Electronic Product Catalogs) are new versions of electronic catalogs that are online and can integrate with other activities of the company and its commercial partners. These catalogs are up-to-date and change with respect to the requirements of the user and establish direct communication channels between buyers and sellers.

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Building an operational product ontology system

Cited by 50 publications

References 15 publications

Ontology definition and construction, and epistemological adequacy for systems interoperability: A practitioner analysis

Ontology definition and construction, and epistemological adequacy for systems interoperability: A practitioner analysis

GoodRelations: An Ontology for Describing Products and Services Offers on the Web

Designing A Catalog Management System– An Ontology Approach

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