Ontology-Supported and Ontology-Driven Conceptual Navigation on the World Wide Web

TL;DR

This paper introduces an ontology-supported framework for dynamic, flexible web navigation that enhances resource interoperability and reusability through conceptual linking and assembly strategies driven by domain and argumentative ontologies.

Contribution

It presents a novel approach combining ontology-driven and ontology-supported methods for conceptual navigation on the web, enabling dynamic link creation and resource assembly.

Findings

Dynamic links are built based on resource meta-descriptions.

Two detailed strategies for resource linking and assembly are discussed.

The approach improves interoperability and reusability of web resources.

Abstract

This paper presents the principles of ontology-supported and ontology-driven conceptual navigation. Conceptual navigation realizes the independence between resources and links to facilitate interoperability and reusability. An engine builds dynamic links, assembles resources under an argumentative scheme and allows optimization with a possible constraint, such as the user's available time. Among several strategies, two are discussed in detail with examples of applications. On the one hand, conceptual specifications for linking and assembling are embedded in the resource meta-description with the support of the ontology of the domain to facilitate meta-communication. Resources are like agents looking for conceptual acquaintances with intention. On the other hand, the domain ontology and an argumentative ontology drive the linking and assembling strategies.