PROTON High-level Ontology

The PROTON High-level Ontology is a lightweight OWL Lite upper-level ontology produced by OntoText AD that is focused on the concepts of: person, location, organization, etc.

• Context:
  • It was created by the SEKT Project.
  • It currently (2011) defines ~300 classes and ~100 properties.
• See: OntoText KIM.

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References

2011

• http://proton.semanticweb.org/
  • This is the home page of the PROTON Ontology (PROTo ONtology).
  • It has been developed in the scope of the SEKT Project.
  • PROTON is split into 4 modules, which can be accessed as follows:
    • PROTON System module: http://proton.semanticweb.org/2005/04/protons
    • PROTON Top module: http://proton.semanticweb.org/2005/04/protont
    • PROTON Upper module: http://proton.semanticweb.org/2005/04/protonu
    • PROTON Knowledge Management module: http://proton.semanticweb.org/2005/04/protonkm
• http://proton.semanticweb.org/PROTON.ppt
  • PROTON is a modular, lightweight, upper-level ontology - major assets:
    • domain-independent;
    • compliant with popular metadata standards;
    • provides light-weight logical definitions;
    • ensures an broad coverage of concrete and/or named entities;
    • requires minimal support for general concepts, which ensures the easy extension in this direction;
    • encoded in OWL Lite;
    • contains a minimal set of custom entilement rules (axioms);

2005

• (Terziev et al., 2005) ⇒ Ivan Terziev, Atanas Kiryakov, and Dimitar Mano. (2005). “Base Upper-level Ontology (bulo) Guidance." Technical Report Deliverable 1.8.1, SEKT project.

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