Querying Life Science Ontologies with SemFacet

Faceted search is the de facto query paradigm in e-commerce and it has been recently adapted for the Semantic Web. In this demonstration we present our faceted search system SemFacet and show how it can enhance access to RDF and OWL 2 datasets and OWL 2 ontologies in the domain of life sciences. SemFacet combines keyword and faceted search and it is based on a solid theory, in particular it employs novel ontology projection techniques to enable faceted navigation for OWL 2. SemFacet relies on PAGOdA and HermiT for logical reasoning and on JRDFox and Sesame for storing and querying RDF triples.

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