“Web Portal”: Complete ontology and portal

This report describes deliverable 6.3: complete ontology and portal. The main goal of the portal is to provide the OntoWeb community members with an integrated access to all kinds of information related to the OntoWeb network. The current version of the OntoWeb portal supports both (conceptual) browsing and querying of the information stored in the portal, as well as content provision and access. A syndicator will crawl the community members websites, annotated using the ontology, extract the annotation and store it in the knowledge base of the portal. The user is then able to browse and query the information stored in the portal. Querying of the information can be done using either ontology-based search forms or keywords. The system exploits the concepts and relationships from the ontology to allow the user to interact with this information on a conceptual level providing the user with a " mental map " of the available information.