Combining Contexts and Ontologies: A Case Study

Abstract

Abstract. In the last years different proposals that integrate ontologies and contexts, taking advantages from their abilities for achieving information semantic interoperability, have arisen. Each of them has considered the problematic from different perspectives. Particularly, through an actual case study this paper shows which are the problems related to support information semantic interoperability between different parties involved in a collaborative business relation over the Internet. Furthermore, this paper analyzes those problems from previous proposals perspective and highlights the weaknesses and sti'engths of them.

A Comprehensive Framework for Representing Semantics via Context and Ontology in the Collaborative Commerce Area

“…In contrast to this approach, in the area of data semantic modeling the notion of context is used to package information and to give a certain interpretation of this information. Then, the context acts as a container for a set of features that affects the meaning of the information it contains [21]. In the area of data semantic interoperability, this information represents the set of data that is exchanged between two entities.…”