OntoForms: User interface structure from a domain ontology

TL;DR

This paper introduces OntoForms, a software component that automatically generates user interface structures from domain ontologies using description logic inference, enabling easy population and editing without configuration.

Contribution

It presents a novel algorithm that creates UI structures directly from ontologies with inference mechanisms, eliminating the need for prior configuration.

Findings

Successfully applied to the wine ontology

Automatically hides irrelevant classes

Supports ontology population and editing

Abstract

This paper presents a software component that generates a user interface structure for populating a domain ontology. The core of this work is an algorithm that takes an ontology and returns a structure describing the user interface. The component also provides functions for populating the ontology and editing existing individuals. Unlike previous approaches, this method can be implemented without any configuration. Additionally, it offers an easy-to-use configuration mechanism that allows irrelevant classes to be hidden and automatically populated. What distinguishes this work is that, instead of exploring the ontology using syntactic methods or queries, our algorithm employs services that implement description logic inference mechanisms. This work illustrates the proposed approach using the well-known wine ontology.