%0 Conference Paper %1 hyvönen2008building %A Hyvönen, Eero %A Viljanen, Kim %A Tuominen, Jouni %A Seppälä, Katri %B Proceedings of the 5th European Semantic Web Conference %C Berlin, Heidelberg %D 2008 %E Hauswirth, Manfred %E Koubarakis, Manolis %E Bechhofer, Sean %I Springer Verlag %K thesauri mapping ontology mash-up application service applications-1 %T Building a National Semantic Web Ontology and Ontology Service Infrastructure----The FinnONTO Approach %U http://data.semanticweb.org/conference/eswc/2008/papers/54 %X This article presents the vision and a framework for creating a national level ontology and ontology service infrastructure in Finland. Core parts of the system and ontologies have been implemented in a national project FinnONTO 2003-2007 funded by 37 companies and public organizations, and are being used it practice for creating semantic portals for eCulture, eHealth, eLearning, and eGovernment. The novelty of the FinnONTO infrastructure is based on two ideas. First, a system national of open source core ontologies is being developed by transforming thesauri in use into lightweight ontologies. The system is based an a large cross-domain top ontology, the General Finnish Ontology YSO, that is then extended by domain specific ontologies aligned with YSO and each other. Collaborative development of such a system of mutually aligned ontologies is supported for obtaining interoperability in their usage in applications. Second, the ONKI Ontology Server framework for publishing ontologies as ready to use services has been implemented. In contrast to earlier ontology servers, ONKI provides legacy and other applications with ready to use functionalities for using ontologies on the HTML level by Ajax and semantic widgets. The idea is to use ONKI for creating mash-up applications in a way analogous to using Google, Yahoo, or Nokia Maps, but in our case external applications are mashed-up with ontology support for, e.g, indexing content or semantic search using semantic autocompletion and disambiguation in a multi-lingual context.

@inproceedings{hyvönen2008building, abstract = {This article presents the vision and a framework for creating a national level ontology and ontology service infrastructure in Finland. Core parts of the system and ontologies have been implemented in a national project FinnONTO 2003-2007 funded by 37 companies and public organizations, and are being used it practice for creating semantic portals for eCulture, eHealth, eLearning, and eGovernment. The novelty of the FinnONTO infrastructure is based on two ideas. First, a system national of open source core ontologies is being developed by transforming thesauri in use into lightweight ontologies. The system is based an a large cross-domain top ontology, the General Finnish Ontology YSO, that is then extended by domain specific ontologies aligned with YSO and each other. Collaborative development of such a system of mutually aligned ontologies is supported for obtaining interoperability in their usage in applications. Second, the ONKI Ontology Server framework for publishing ontologies as ready to use services has been implemented. In contrast to earlier ontology servers, ONKI provides legacy and other applications with ready to use functionalities for using ontologies on the HTML level by Ajax and semantic widgets. The idea is to use ONKI for creating mash-up applications in a way analogous to using Google, Yahoo, or Nokia Maps, but in our case external applications are mashed-up with ontology support for, e.g, indexing content or semantic search using semantic autocompletion and disambiguation in a multi-lingual context.}, added-at = {2008-05-28T14:49:53.000+0200}, address = {Berlin, Heidelberg}, author = {Hyvönen, Eero and Viljanen, Kim and Tuominen, Jouni and Seppälä, Katri}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/28d3ba133363062de93ffecfd805ce450/eswc2008}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th European Semantic Web Conference}, editor = {Hauswirth, Manfred and Koubarakis, Manolis and Bechhofer, Sean}, interhash = {3b210910c967014c27a0a9daaa59935e}, intrahash = {8d3ba133363062de93ffecfd805ce450}, keywords = {thesauri mapping ontology mash-up application service applications-1}, month = {June}, publisher = {Springer Verlag}, series = {LNCS}, timestamp = {2008-05-28T14:49:53.000+0200}, title = {Building a National Semantic Web Ontology and Ontology Service Infrastructure----The FinnONTO Approach}, url = {http://data.semanticweb.org/conference/eswc/2008/papers/54}, year = 2008 }