Databases Reference
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Tabl e 6. 3
Characteristics of selected ontology evolution systems
Protege
Noy et al.
(
2004
,
2006
),
Noy and Musen
(
2002
)
KAON
Stojanovic et al.
(
2002
)
OntoView
Klein et al.
(
2002
)OnEX
Hartung et al.
(
2008
,
2009
,
2010
)
,
Kirsten et al.
(
2009
)
Description/focus of work
Flexible framework for
ontology management and
evolution
Process for consistent
ontology evolution
Version management and
comparison for RDF-based
ontologies
Quantitative evolution
analysis for life science
ontologies and mappings
Supported ontology
formats
RDF/OWL, further formats
via import plugins
RDF/OWL
RDF
OBO, RDF, CSV; further
formats via adaptable import
Change types
(1) Richness (simple,
complex)
(1) Simple and complex
(siblings move,
:::
)
(1) Simple and complex
(merge, copy,
:::
)
(1) Simple
(1) Simple and complex
(merge, split,
:::
)
(2) Specification
(incremental, new
schema)
(2) Incremental or
specification of new
ontology version
(2) Incremental
(2) Integration of new
versions
(2) Integration of new
versions
Evolution mapping
(1) Representation
(1) Incremental changes or
difference table for two
versions
(1) Incremental changes
(1) Set of changes
interrelating two versions
(1) Set of changes
interrelating two versions
(2) DIFF computation
(2) PROMPTDIFF
algorithm
(2)-
(2) Rule-based diff
computation
(2) Matching and
rule-based diff computation
