ORIENT: Integrate Ontology Engineering into Industry Tooling Environment

Lei Zhang1, Yong Yu1, Jing Lu1, ChenXi Lin1, KeWei Tu1, MingChuan Guo1, Zhuo Zhang1
GuoTong Xie2, Zhong Su2, and Yue Pan2

1 APEX Data and Knowledge Management Lab
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai JiaoTong University
Shanghai, 20030, China.
{zhanglei, yyu, robertlu, linchenxi, tkw, gmc, zhuoz}@apex.sjtu.edu.cn

2 IBM China Research Lab
No.7, 5th Ave, ShangDi, Beijing, 100085, China.
{xieguot, suzhong, panyue}@cn.ibm.com

Abstract. ORIENT is a project to develop an ontology engineering tool that integrates into existing industry tooling environments -- the Eclipse platform and the WebSphere Studio developing tools family. This paper describes how two important issues are addressed during the project, namely tool integration and scalability. We show how ORIENT morphs into the Eclipse platform and achieves UI and data level integration with the Eclipse platform and other modelling tools. We also describe how we implemented a scalable RDF(S) storage, query, manipulation and inference mechanism on top of a relational database. In particular, we report the empirical performance of our RDF(S) closure inference algorithm on a DB2 database.

In Proceedings of the Third International Semantic Web Conference 2004, 7-11 November 2004, Hiroshima, Japan.