OntoMap

Abstract

Currently the evaluation of the feasibility of general-purpose ontologies and upper-level models is expensive mostly because of technical problems such as different representation formalisms and terminologies used. Additionally, there are no formal mappings between the upper-level ontologies that could ease any kind of studies and comparisons. We present the OntoMap Project (http://www.OntoMap.org), a project with the pragmatic goal to facilitate the access, understanding, and reuse of such resources. A semantic framework on the conceptual level is implemented that is small and easy enough to be learned on-the-fly. We tried to design the framework so that it captures most of the semantics usually encoded in upper-level models. Technically, OntoMap is a web-site providing access to several upper-level ontologies and manual mapping between them.