Ontology Service Center: a datahub for ontology application

TL;DR

This paper introduces the Ontology Service Center platform, which facilitates discovery, integration, and reuse of heterogeneous research datasets in digital humanities through ontology-based technologies.

Contribution

It presents a comprehensive platform with query and validation centers to support ontology publishing, querying, and verification, enhancing dataset understanding and reuse.

Findings

Demonstrates ontology application in semantic annotation of images

Provides tools for ontology publishing and validation

Supports development of knowledge graphs in digital humanities

Abstract

With the growth of data-oriented research in humanities, a large number of research datasets have been created and published through web services. However, how to discover, integrate and reuse these distributed heterogeneous research datasets is a challenging task. Ontology is the soul between series digital humanities resources, which provides a good way for people to discover and understand these datasets. With the release of more and more linked open data and knowledge bases, a large number of ontologies have been produced at the same time. These ontologies have different publishing formats, consumption patterns, and interactions ways, which are not conductive to the users understanding of the datasets and the reuse of the ontologies. The Ontology Service Center platform consists of Ontology Query Center and Ontology Validation Center, mainly using linked data and ontology-based technologies. The Ontology Query Center realizes the functions of ontology publishing, querying, data interaction and online browsing, while the Ontology Validation Center can verify the status of using certain ontologies in the linked datasets. The empirical part of the paper uses the Confucius portrait as an example of how OSC can be used in the semantic annotation of images. In a word, the purpose of this paper is to construct the applied ecology of ontology to promote the development of knowledge graphs and the spread of ontology.