Defining Several Ontologies to Enhance theExpressive Power of Queries

WWW*05 Workshop on Interoperability of Web-Based Educational Systems

Bich-Liên Doan ; Yolaine Bourda

PID  :  74557

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

The use of ontologies is a key step forward for describing thesemantics of information on the Web. It is becoming moreand more important to make the information machine readable, since the volume of data is continuously growing.In the educational area, metadata are considered to be helpfulin such a process. We propose to enrich the description ofeducational resources by introducing several levels ofdescription of concepts, and to make them machine readableby using a formal language of ontology, OWL. Using boththis ontology and the expressive power of an OWL querylanguage to query pedagogical resources will improve the