The semantic web is the primary focus of a large portion of web development over the past five years. But as the range and ambition of semantic research expands, the technology and tools used to develop it are finding it hard to keep up, because the ontologies at the heart of the semantic web are becoming more complex, larger, and more demanding.
Ontologies are large dictionaries of machine-readable labels defining every aspect of a specific domain, such as medicine or engineering. These domains can be populated with further sub-ontologies, such as neurology or mechanical engineering.
“The increased demand for multiple, large-scale and complex ontologies poses novel challenges on all ontology tasks, such as their design, maintenance, merging, and integration,” explains Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, coordinator of the TONES project.
The TONES project set out to develop a series of tools to make the development, management, integration and operation of large ontologies much simpler.
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