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r. Kurt Bollacker is a computer scientist with a research background in the areas of machine learning, digital libraries, semantic networks, and electro-cardiographic modeling. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from The University Of Texas At Austin, was co-creator of the Citeseer research tool as a visiting researcher at the NEC Research Institute, was the technical director of the Internet Archive, and a biomedical research engineer at the Duke University Medical Center. He is currently pursuing research into long term digital archiving as the Digital Research Director at the Long Now Foundation, and is a scientist at Metaweb Technologies.

Designing and refining ontologies becomes a tedious task, once the boundary to real-world-size knowledge bases has been crossed. Hence semi-automatic methods supporting those tasks will determine the future success of ontologies in practice. Our research therefore aims at the conceptual development and implementation of tools for semi-automatic ontology engineering. By combining Ontology Learning and Relational Exploration we hope to overcome the knowledge acquisition bottleneck, especially with respect to expressive axiomatizations (see our seminal paper at ICCS'2007). The RELExO framework supporting the refinement and evaluation of OWL DL ontologies is open source and publicly available under the LGPL license.