Using semantic web spaces to realize ontology repositories

As the Semantic Web grows, increasing numbers of private and public sector communities will be developing ontologies which represent their domain(s) of interest. As ontologies are also intended to act as shared domain conceptualizations [Gr95] it is expected that ontology developers may also wish to make their ontologies available to other users, possibly under some license. This will bring the benefit of ontology developers being able to re-use existing models or align them to local ones, thus reducing implementation costs, improving the quality of ontological sources, which are, by re-use, subject of continuous revisions and refinements, and increasing the interoperability among ontology-based applications. Besides, access to available ontologies across the Web is a fundamental requirement for the dissemination of Semantic Web Services, which are envisioned to automatically use these sources in order to describe their capabilities and for interprocess communication.

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