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Research Project: eclassOWL:
Ontologizing eCl@ss
Products and services categorization standards (PSCS),
like UNSPSC, eCl@ss, eOTD, or the RosettaNet Technical Dictionary
(RNTD) form a valuable set
of concepts from the product and services domain and reflect some
degree of consensus.
They are thus a promising foundation for the creation of products and
services ontologies.
Existing approaches for this task, however, do neither properly reflect
the specific semantics
of the respective categorization standards, nor do they sufficiently
address the high versioning
dynamics due to product innovation. In this project I am developing a
comprehensive approach
for the proper reuse of such standards in product ontologies and am
working on a complete
OWL Lite version of eCl@ss.
NEWS :
June 16,
2006:
The eClassOWL
5.1
User's Guide is available in HTML and PDF!
March 15,
2006:
eClassOWL
5.1
is ready for release!
Register
now for the eClassOWL
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http://ebusiness-unibw.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/eclassowl
Downloads:
- eClassOWL 5.1: Ontology Files and Documentation (OWL Lite/DLP, compressed file, ca. 2.4 MB)
- eClassOWL 5.1: User's Guide (PDF)
- eClassOWL 5.1: User's Guide (HTML)
Related Publications:
Martin
Hepp: Products
and Services Ontologies: A Methodology for Deriving OWL Ontologies from
Industrial Categorization Standards, Int'l Journal
on Semantic Web & Information Systems
(IJSWIS),
Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 72-99, January-March 2006.
Martin
Hepp: Representing
the Hierarchy of Industrial Taxonomies in OWL: The gen/tax Approach
Proceedings of the ISWC Workshop
Semantic Web Case
Studies and Best
Practices for eBusiness (SWCASE'05),
November 7, Galway, Irland.
Martin
Hepp: A
Methodology for Deriving OWL Ontologies
from Products and Services Categorization Standards,
Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Information Systems
(ECIS2005), May 26 - May 28, 2005, Regensburg, Germany, pp. 1-12.
Martin
Hepp, Joerg Leukel,
Volker Schmitz: A
Quantitative
Analysis of eCl@ss, UNSPSC, eOTD, and RNTD Content, Coverage, and
Maintenance, Proceedings of
the IEEE ICEBE 2005, October
18-20, Beijing, China, pp. 572-581.
Martin
Hepp, Joerg Leukel,
Volker Schmitz: Content Metrics
for
Products and Services Categorization Standards,
Proceedings of
the IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and
e-Service (EEE-05), March 29 - April 1, 2005, Hong Kong, pp. 740-745.
Martin
Hepp: Product
Representation
in the Semantic Web,
Working Paper, April 2004.
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