Ontology Mapping Representations: a Pragmatic Evaluation

Abstract

A common approach to mitigate the effects of ontology heterogeneity is to discover and express the specific corre-spondences (mappings) between different ontologies. An open research question is: how should such ontology mappings be represented? In recent years several proposals for an ontology mapping representation have been published, but as yet no for-mat is officially standardised or generally accepted in the com-munity. In this paper we will present the results of a systematic analysis of ontology mapping representations to provide a pragmatic state of the art overview of their characteristics. In particular we are interested how current ontology mapping representations can support the management of ontology map-pings (sharing, re-use, alteration) as well as how suitable they are for different mapping tasks