OIL Case Studies

• (KA)² Ontology
• The CIA World Factbook
• 12 Ontologies from the Tourist Domain
• Semantic Web Community
• OIL in OIL

This ontology will form the basis to annotate WWW documents of the Knowledge Acquisition Community in order to enable intelligent access to these documents.

(KA)2 ontology is a domain ontology which consists of two main parts: a general ontology containing seven related ontologies (an organization ontology, a person ontology, a publication ontology, a project ontology, an event ontology, a research-topic ontology, and a product ontology) used to describe organizations, persons, publications, etc., and a specialized ontology used to describe research topics of the knowledge acquisition community and other related scientific areas.

Original facts are from Ontobroker project. Original ontology is from Ontobroker project

The CIA Word Factbook is an excellent collection of country description pages It contains information drawn from many government agencies about each country in the world. It covers geography, people, governments, economics, communications, transportation, and defense.

The CIA ontology is a domain ontology that consists of two main parts: specific description classes that describe special aspects of the country (like geography, economy, etc.) and the class that describes the whole country; it is derived from all specific description classes.

Original factbook available from The World Factbook 1999 by CIA,  Description Logic version can be found in the Ontobroker project