Detecting defects in ontologies has always been important, but with the increased use of ontologies and ontology mappings in semantically-enabled applications, the importance has increased exponentially. This interesting information was found on 7th Space Interactive in their article, “A unified approach for debugging is-a structure and mappings in networked taxonomies.”
Unfortunately, defects can lead to incomplete results for the applications. A unified framework for debugging the is-a structures of taxonomies, and for debugging mappings between taxonomies, is offered as a solution.
Ontologies and other controlled vocabularies help ensure that machine-assisted or fully automated indexing is comprehensive, regardless of what you are indexing. Access Innovations is one of a very small number of companies able to help its clients generate ANSI/ISO/W3C-compliant taxonomies to make their information findable.
Melody K. Smith
Sponsored by Access Innovations, the world leader in taxonomies, metadata, and semantic enrichment to make your content findable.
