Changing Ontology Breaks the Queries

Authors: 
Liang, Y; Alani, H; Dupplaw, D.; Shadbolt, N
Author: 
Liang, Y
Alani, H
Dupplaw, D
Shadbolt, N
Year: 
2006
Venue: 
ISWC, 2006
URL: 
http://eprints.aktors.org/540/01/DC-ISWC06-cameraready.pdf
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Updating an ontology that is in use may result in inconsistencies between the ontology and the knowledge base, dependent ontologies and applications/services. Current research concentrates on the
creation of ontologies and how to manage ontology changes in terms of
mapping ontology versions and keeping consistent with the instances.
Very little work investigated controlling the impact on dependent applications/services; which is the aim of the system presented in this paper.
The approach we propose is to make use of ontology change logs to
analyse incoming RDQL queries and amend them as necessary. Revised
queries can then be used to query the ontology and knowledge base as
requested by the applications and services. We describe our prototype
system and discuss related problems and future directions.