The PatOMat Project

http://patomat.vse.cz

Patterns in Ontologies: AutoMatic Processing

Pattern-Based Ontology Matching

Let's make ontologies metamorphic

The PatOMat logo was designed by Renata Kovarova, Knowledge Engineering Group

Ontology Transformation Framework
(collection of software deliverables and accompanying materials)

Project page at SourceForge

This is the entry page listing most important project news. You can continue to the general description of the project, to information about people involved, to a (stump) page about specific applications of PatOMat, to a hub of downloadable items and HTML interfaces, to the project bibliography, or to a survey of related projects (not yet available).

News:

February 2012: The XDTools implementation of PatOMat is now interoperable with the NeOn Toolkit.

January 15, 2012: The second annual report was submitted to the CSF.

October 25, 2011: The PatOMat demo (including the RESTful services, the XDTools implementation, and the TPE editor) was presented at ISWC'11.

September 2011: UEP became partner in the LOD2 EU project, with duration till August 2014. Some of the results of PatOMat will be used in the WP3 of this project.

July-December 2011: Ondrej Zamazal, the lead developer of PatOMat, was on DAAD-funded internship at the University of Mannheim. The outcomes of his research carried out there will be directly reused within PatOMat, particularly in its 'scale-down transformation' (for reasoner) scenario.

June 2011: To ease the manual design of transformation patterns, the Transformation Pattern Editor (TPE) was developed.

June 2011: In addition to RESTful services, the latest version of transformation services is also available as Java library. It has also numerous advanced features such as recursion handling or different transformation strategies for additional axioms. For details see the Description of Releases and Tutorial, available from the Ontology Transformation Framework site. The library was successfully integrated into the XDTools environment developed by STLab, Rome.

March 2011: The first annual report was submitted to the CSF.

September 2010: The first prototype version of the pattern-based ontology transformation services is available, including a comprehensive tutorial; see also section Project description.

May 29, 2010: A paper on the main direction of the project, titled "Pattern-Based Ontology Transformation Service Exploiting OPPL and OWL-API", as joint work with University of Manchester, was accepted as full paper to the EKAW2010 conference in Lisbon, see section Bibliography.

May 5-7, 2010: Vojtech Svatek and Mirek Vacura visited the STLab at CNR, Rome. Details on further collaboration (among other) in applying transformation patterns in combination with content patterns were discussed.

February 25-26, 2010: Francois Scharffe from INRIA Rhone-Alps visited us on the basis of PatOMat. We discussed further joint research regarding ontology matching assisted by ontology patterns.

February 22, 2010: Aristotelis A. Triantafyllopoulos, student from the University of Patras, Greece, is joining the group for a 3-month ERASMUS training in Knowledge Engineering. Aside general training, he will also look at issues related to PatOMat such as logical pattern expressivity in OWL 2 dialects.

February 3, 2010: At the annual Czecho-Slovak knowledge technology conference, Znalosti 2010, a full paper titled "Entity Naming in Semantic Web Ontologies: Design Patterns and Empirical Observations" was presented. The final phase of preparing the paper/talk was already supported by PatOMat.

February 1, 2010: We had a short visit from the University of Freiburg: Daniel Schober, expert in biomedical ontologies. We discussed ontology entity naming issues.

January 1, 2010: PatOMat officially started, as a three-year project co-funded by the CSF.

Early 2009: The idea (and name) of the project was formulated, and a proposal to the CSF was submitted.