An Approach to Ontology Construction

The goal of the work presented here is to identify current limitations of community portals introduce community-driven ontology management as a new approach to ontology construction and demonstrate the added value to community portals of being community-driven.The three main parts of the work are:(i) the development of a framework allowing and motivating collaborative ontology construction and reuse for the end users (a person and a community)(ii) building a prototype on the basis of this specification namely the People's portal and(iii) the application of the developed infrastructure to scenarios in semantically-enhanced community portals with the involvement of real users.The development of the framework for community-driven ontology manage­ment is aimed at enriching with community-supporting features the established practices for ontology management in the areas of ontology development and population storage matching and versioning. The objective of community-driven ontology management is to provide the means and motivations for a large number of users to weave and adopt the Semantic Web.