Onto4AllEditor: a web-based graphic editor for building ontologies addressed to all kinds of information users

• Autor(a) principal: Mendonça, Fabricio Martins
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Castro, Lucas Piazzi, Souza, Jairo Francisco, Almeida, Maurício Barcellos, Felipe, Eduardo Ribeiro
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Em Questão (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EmQuestao/article/view/105603
• topic: Ontology editor; Ontology construction; Knowledge representation; Editor de ontologia; Construção de ontologia; Representação do Conhecimento

Ontologies are knowledge representation artifacts used in the scope of Information Science, mainly in the field of Knowledge Organization, as well as in related areas. Even though the theme has been disseminated for more than two decades, the construction of ontologies still poses challenges for professionals, researchers and students of Information Science. Such challenges are mainly related to the logical-philosophical jargon required for the knowledge formalization stage and to the complexity of the available editors focused on computing. This research aims to provide an alternative to such challenges. We present here the Onto4AllEditor, a graphical, collaborative and web-based ontology editor, which includes simple and intuitive features. Based on the OntoForInfoScience methodology, the editor was designed to facilitate the work of users with distinguished levels of experience, with the aim of popularizing the construction of ontologies. We discuss the limitations of the popular editors available and compares them to which is offered by Onto4AllEditor. Finally, we conclude that Onto4AllEditor, even already including some advanced features, simplify the construction of ontologies, in particular, for those users who are starting in this type of activity.