KASSETTS Ontology Manager

The KASSETTS networking scenarios call for providing the KASSETTS platform with a technology assuring the possibility, for the users, to import/export logistic documents from/to their own information (legacy) systems and to exchange documents with the other actors characterised by different data models and languages. This requires the construction of a Logistic Sector Ontology – a reference data model and multilingual vocabulary for that specific application domain – and its use to “annotate” (or “map”) the concepts of every interesting legacy systems and to cross-reference the terms from the origin language to English as “lingua franca” up to the destination language. The KASSETTS ontology is coded with an ontology editor and mapper to feed the automatic translation service. The ontology editor is built as an extension of PROTÉGÉ, the best known open-source editor of OWL ontologies, by adding easy to use functionalities for multi-lingual browsing and ontology export in XML format.