Change Management for Metadata Evolution

Change Management for Metadata Evolution

Diana Maynard1,Wim Peters1,Mathieu d’Aquin2,and Marta Sabou2

1Department of Computer Science,University of She?eld

Regent Court,211Portobello Street,She?eld,UK

{diana,wim}@https://www.wendangku.net/doc/fe11634996.html,

2Knowledge Media Institute,Open University,

Walton Hall,Milton Keynes,UK

{m.daquin,r.m.sabou}@https://www.wendangku.net/doc/fe11634996.html,

Abstract.In order to meet the demands of the Semantic Web,today’s

ontologies need to be dynamic,networked structures.One important

challenge,therefore,is to develop an integrated approach to the evolu-

tion process of ontologies and related metadata.Within this context,the

speci?c goal of this work is to capture the evolution of metadata due

to changed concepts,relations or metadata in one of the ontologies,and

to capture changes to the ontology caused by changes to the metadata.

After a short discussion of the nature of metadata,we propose a method-

ology to capture(1)the evolution of metadata induced by changes to the

ontologies,and(2)the evolution of the ontology induced by changes to

the underlying metadata.This will lead to the implementation of an

approach for evolution of metadata related to ontologies.

1Introduction

Support for metadata evolution becomes extremely important in a distributed, dynamic environment.Change management should warrant the continuity of data access,i.e.all data previously associated with an older version of an on-tology should be accessible and interpretable through the new version.When ontologies evolve,these changes should be propagated to all the information ob-jects that are dependent on them,such as local copies of ontologies and annotated texts,although this may not always be possible in practice,particularly where networked ontologies are concerned.After the detection of changes in conceptual structure between two versions of an ontology,the ontology management system must enable the update of metadata a?ected by the changes in the ontology,in order to maintain a consistent link between ontology and metadata.This link is de?ned by a number of attributes,amongst which are the URLs for ontology, annotated text and concept.On the other hand,the system must also be capable of enabling updates to the ontology which may be necessary when the metadata changes:for example,the processing of new documents might show the emer-gence of new concepts and new relations,re?ecting an evolution of the domain itself,or some concepts may become less signi?cant.Similarly,the mismatch between the results of two di?erent annotators in a collaborative annotation

environment might require the merging of two subconcepts in an ontology.In these scenarios,the evolution of ontologies should be guided by changes in the metadata,to keep the knowledge they contain up-to-date with respect to the considered domain.

With respect to ontology evolution,we therefore distinguish two types of changes:top-down and bottom-up[12].Top-down changes are explicit changes in the ontology,to which the metadata needs to be adapted.These will be discussed in Section3.Bottom-up changes occur when distributed metadata need to be re?ected by changes to an ontology,and will be discussed in Section 4.First,however,in Section2we take a brief look at semantic metadata,in order to fully understand the role of its creation,existence and need for maintenance.

Finally,we would like to clarify some terminological ambiguity when talking about metadata.This is due to the use of the term in various areas of knowl-edge engineering.First,there is the notion of metadata as ontology metadata. Ontology metadata provides information about the ontology,e.g.who created it,how many concepts it contains,etc.A proposal exists for a standard descrip-tion for this type of metadata information,the Ontology Metadata Vocabulary (OMV)[5].Changes in the ontology may a?ect the value of these standardised attributes:for instance,the addition of another natural language for the labels will lead to a change in the OMV language attribute.The second notion of metadata stems from the area of natural language processing,and is often called semantic metadata or annotations.This type of metadata concerns concept in-stantiation in the form of the annotation of textual(or other forms of)data, and therefore contains information about the linguistic content of the ontology. Note that within this work,we are concerned primarily with text rather than other forms of media such as images or videos,so where the question of media is left unspeci?ed,we shall be referring to textual forms of media.In this sense of metadata,data annotation concerns the task of adding semantic metadata to text.In this context it concerns the linking of instances in the text to concepts in the ontology,and potentially also?nding relations between such concepts.This is known as semantic metadata creation.It is applied to ontology evolution in the form of bottom-up change discovery and ontology population,which con-cerns adding instances from the text to concepts in the ontology.In this paper, we will be discussing the dynamics of semantic textual metadata:hereafter when we refer to metadata,unless otherwise stated,we mean semantic metadata.

2Creation of semantic metadata

The Semantic Web aims to add a machine tractable,repurposable layer to com-plement the existing web of natural language hypertext.In order to realise this vision,the creation of semantic annotation,the linking of web pages to ontolo-gies,and the creation,evolution and interrelation of ontologies must become automatic or semi-automatic processes.An important aspect of the Semantic Web revolution is that it is based largely on human language materials,and in making the shift to the next generation knowledge-based web,human language

will remain crucial.In the context of new work on distributed computation,Se-mantic Web Services go beyond current services by adding ontologies and formal knowledge to support description,discovery,negotiation,mediation and compo-sition.This formal knowledge is often strongly related to informal materials.To make these types of services cost-e?ective,we need automatic knowledge har-vesting from all forms of content that contain natural language text or spoken data.

Semantic annotation is essentially the task of assigning to the entities in the text links to their semantic descriptions.This kind of metadata provides both class and instance information about the entities.Semantic annotations enable many new applications to be performed,such as highlighting,indexing and re-trieval,categorisation,generation of more advanced metadata,and a smooth traversal between unstructured text and available relevant knowledge.Semantic annotation can be applied to any kind of text-web pages,regular(non-web-based)documents,text?elds in databases,etc.-or even to non-textual forms of data(although,as mentioned earlier,we shall restrict ourselves here to textual content).Furthermore,knowledge acquisition can be performed on the basis of the extraction of more complex dependencies,such as analysis of the relation-ships between entities,event and situation descriptions,and so on.

Automatic semantic annotation of textual data is generally carried out by means of some kind of ontology-based information extraction(OBIE).While semantic annotation can of course be performed manually,it is a time-consuming and laborious task,which certainly cannot scale to the demands of real world applications on the web.Therefore at the least,a semi-automatic,if not fully automatic,process is required.Ontology-based IE di?ers from traditional IE in a number of ways.First,it makes uses of a formal ontology rather than a ?at lexicon or gazetteer,which may also require reasoning to be carried out. Second,it not only?nds the(most speci?c)type of the extracted entity,but it also identi?es it,by linking it to its semantic description in the instance base. This allows entities to be traced across documents and their descriptions to be enriched through the IE process.This more semantic form of IE is therefore a much harder task than the traditional one:see for example[7],which describes the extension of a traditional IE system into one which performs a more semantic extraction,comparing the two tasks,systems and results.

The automatic population of ontologies with instances from the text requires the existence of an ontology and a corpus.From this,an OBIE application identi?es instances in the text belonging to concepts in the ontology,and adds these instances to the ontology in the correct location.It is important to note that instances may appear in more than one location in the ontology,because of the multidimensional nature of many ontologies and/or ambiguities which cannot or should not be resolved at this level.For examples of OBIE applications,see for example[9,2].

3Top-Down metadata evolution

As metadata creation is an expensive task,it is important that sets of ontology metadata and document annotations are kept in sync with an evolving ontol-ogy.As far as possible,we do not want to have to reannotate a whole corpus every time the ontology changes in some way(although in some cases this is in-evitable).The evolution of the related metadata has to be synchronised with the evolution of the ontologies for the purpose of preserving instance data and com-patibility between ontology versions.Therefore,methods for evolving metadata automatically and in parallel with the networked ontologies are required.In the presence of networked ontologies,this includes the synchronisation of distributed metadata.

Consequently,changes in ontology structure need to be captured by means of evolution operations,and described in some standardised fashion.One solution to this problem is to keep the metadata static and keep track of the(speci?c) version of the ontology used for the text annotation.In this case,we assume that annotations are stable but contextual,and thereby manage the evolution of the ontology only at the ontological level by means of links between the old and new versions of the ontology,or the link between di?erent ontologies.In this case we could study how the annotations according to one ontology can be imported into a new ontology(linked to the other ontology in a formal way). However,this approach leads to a high level of complexity if there are many versions of the ontology and also makes automatic processing more di?cult(for example,using the populated ontology for tasks such as information retrieval and question answering).Furthermore,it is not evident how this could be achieved when material is added to or deleted from the ontology,as links cannot exist to items which are non-existent.So it would only be useful for certain types of change and not as a complete framework for change(assuming that we wish to avoid data loss).

3.1Related Work

The main candidate for the change capture and description phases is[6],who propose a framework for ontology evolution that integrates all sources of ontology change information.A so-called transformation set encompasses all changes that have occurred between an old and a new version of the ontology.The changes that can occur in OWL ontologies have been gathered into a change typology and made available on the web.The change typology is an ontology of change operations,and covers basic change operations such as delete superclass, and complex operations,e.g.add an entire subtree.The ontology of basic change operations contains add and delete operations for each feature of the OWL knowledge https://www.wendangku.net/doc/fe11634996.html,plex operations consist of a combination of basic operations.We have evaluated this ontology in the light of the requirements for capturing the dynamics of metadata.

The main element missing from Klein and Noy’s typology is the networked nature of ontologies.For example,the addition of a new ontology to the network

would require the addition of new instances and possibly other changes such as relational information linking instances to di?erent parts of the network.We do not deal here speci?cally with network-related changes,preferring to focus in the ?rst instance on the changes that stem from one ontology;networked ontology evolution will be part of future work.

The other di?erence between Klein and Noy’s typology and our proposed framework is that they basically developed the change ontology for their own metamodel of OWL,which was built with di?erent assumptions and design considerations that are partially incompatible with ours,since our work is within the scope of the NeOn project3,which relies on a particular metamodel for OWL. For example,the references to slots are more concerned with a frame-based model and are not really appropriate here,although many of them can be translated into changes that a?ect instances.

Finally,we also aim to provide a di?erent kind of categorisation of the changes:for example,distinguishing between changes that stem from or a?ect the network,ontology,concept or instance,because these may have di?erent causes and di?erent e?ects.We also need to characterise the actions associated with the changes,rather than just specifying the information loss:for example, addition of a new concept in the ontology may require additional annotation in order to?nd the relevant metadata(instances);deletion of a concept may involve an automatic deletion of its relevant instances;merging two concepts requires merging of their instances,and so on.

For this purpose we need to establish:

1.which change classes are relevant for metadata evolution;

2.what e?ect such changes have on the metadata

3.what action should follow these changes.

For instance,if a concept is moved,references to the concept should be found and modi?ed appropriately;if a concept is deleted,annotations referencing the concept should be changed to reference its superclass,etc.

3.2A framework for capturing metadata evolution

We classify the changes according to those which stem principally from the concept,instance or property level.First we look at the e?ect on the instances caused by changes to the ontology/concepts.We describe the change and the e?ect on the data(largely as established by Klein and Noy,though with some di?erences related to the frame-based vs OWL implementation),and propose the actions that should be taken.Note that our aim here is to attempt to specify the changes and actions that should take place–some of these will most likely occur as a matter of course(such as merging associated instances when their respective classes are merged).

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It must be borne in mind that the change typology represents an initial framework for capturing changes in ontologies.Its envisaged role is to serve as the basis for further discussion and a more formal speci?cation.

Most changes originating at the property level do not really a?ect the meta-data as such:for example,changing a property means that a new property name will be attached to the instance,but does not a?ect the instance per se.How-ever,if a new property is added,reannotation may be necessary to acquire new instances.On the other hand,if a property is deleted,the instance should auto-matically inherit the property of its superclass.

Changes occurring at the concept level are the ones most likely to in?uence the metadata:in some cases,the instances may have to be moved to new classes; in other cases,reannotation may be required in order to acquire new instances (e.g.when new classes are added to the ontology).

Thus we see that for each change,a set of3possible actions exists:

1.do nothing;

2.some manual action is required;

3.some automatic action is required.

Do Nothing:The?rst action is self-explanatory and requires no further dis-cussion.In some cases,a degree of data loss is inevitable.

Manual Action:The second action almost always requires some kind of re-annotation of the corpus.This can be for several reasons:

First,existing information in the ontology needs to be reclassi?ed.This could be the case where a new subclass is added.Imagine we have an ontology which contains the class comestible and the subclass food.Now imagine we add a new subclass of comestible,drink.Before this subclass was added,all instances of drink that were not also instances of food would have been classi?ed simply as comestible,because that was the most speci?c class to which they could belong in the ontology.Once drink is added to the ontology,such instances need reclassifying under the drink class.However,this is almost impossible to do automatically because we have no way of knowing which instances of comestible should be moved and which should not,unless we return to the text for further analysis,or unless the ontology provides us with further information.

Second,information may be missing from the ontology.This could be the case when a new top class is added to the ontology.

Finally,it may also be a combination of the two factors.For example,in the case where a new superclass is added to the ontology,some information may be missing and some may need reclassi?cation.

While missing instances can simply be added to the appropriate place in the ontology when found in the text,reclassi?cation is a little more tricky because it consists of a two-stage process:?rst the system must?nd the instances in the text and recognise that they are currently not classi?ed in the most appropriate way in the ontology,and second,it must follow the automatic procedure for reclassi?cation as speci?ed below.

Automatic Action:The third action requires a set of procedures to be followed for automating the reclassi?cation of instances in the ontology.Below we give an example of some such possible procedures according to the GATE ontology API: naturally the exact procedures will be implementation-speci?c according to the ontology model used.Note that some of the actions could be de?ned simply as natural consequences rather than explicit actions.

–When a class is added

?It will automatically inherit from its superclasses a set of properties

–When an equivalent class is added

?It will inherit all the instances from its equivalent class

?These instances will all have a sameIndividualAs statement added

–When an instance is added

?It will automatically inherit from its superclasses a set of properties.

–When a class is deleted

?A list of all its superclasses is obtained.For each class in this list,a list of its subclasses is obtained and the deleted class is removed from it.

?All subclasses of the deleted class are moved to subclasses of the parent of the deleted superclass.A list of all its disjoint classes is obtained.For each subclass in this list,a list of its disjoint classes is obtained and the deleted class is removed from it.

?All instances of the deleted class are moved to its direct superclass in the ontology.

4Bottom-Up ontology evolution

Textual resources and the associated metadata generally evolve faster than the related ontologies.In that sense,they re?ect more accurately the evolution of the domain itself,e.g.progresses realised in scienti?c?elds,new trends or obso-lete elements.Even if ontologies are supposed to be a stable conceptualisation of the domain,the evolution of the metadata has to be re?ected in the related ontologies,to keep the relation between ontologies and metadata up-to-date,and so that the ontologies evolve in accordance with the current state of the domain they represent.Therefore,the dynamics of metadata have to be captured in a way that it can be related to the adequate ontologies and guide their evolu-tion by suggesting corresponding ontology changes,leading to a metadata-driven maintenance of ontologies.We shall therefore investigate which operations are necessary to cover a number of evolution strategies for bottom-up change dis-covery,e.g.in the case of a required extension or re?nement of the ontological structure of a particular ontology component,or the suggestion of the merge of two classes for a particular application if an automatic classi?er is unable to distinguish between the two(or if human agreement is not reached)and the concepts in question are considered relatively similar.

In this section,we consider the notion of metadata according to a general de?nition:information about the content of a resource or a document.Resources

and documents can take di?erent forms,(texts,images,etc.),and the associated metadata can be either manual annotations(e.g.folksonomy tags given by the author of an image)or automatically extracted(https://www.wendangku.net/doc/fe11634996.html,ing tools for information extraction from texts).In the case of semantic annotations,metadata is repre-sented according to ontology elements.The goal of this section is to show how ontologies can evolve in accordance with the evolution of metadata associated with documents of the domain.The basis of the proposed mechanism consists of relating evolving(non-semantic)metadata with the considered ontologies,in order to assess the insu?ciencies of these ontologies in representing the consid-ered metadata as semantic annotations.The process of suggesting changes in an ontology based on changes in the underlying annotated dataset was de?ned as data-driven change in[8].It can be argued that the methodology described here is data-driven rather than metadata-driven,in the sense that,in most of the cases,metadata evolves as a consequence of the evolution of the underlying data.However,in the case of manual annotation,for example,the annotator may change the metadata associated with a document,without changing the document itself.

The proposed methodology can be considered as a bottom-up approach for two reasons.First,the basic principle is that changes in metadata would guide the evolution of the ontologies.Second,the de?nition of the methodology itself is based on experimentations using real life datasets:by studying the evolution of these datasets through the associated metadata,we aim at de?ning general principles for a metadata-driven ontology evolution.Therefore,we plan to ap-ply this methodology to two concrete case studies using two di?erent datasets and two di?erent forms of metadata:the evolution of ontologies depending on changes in folksonomies and depending on changes in textual documents in a given domain.We?rst give a brief outline of the methodology we plan to follow, followed by descriptions of two case studies.

4.1Methodology

This section presents our approach for studying changes in metadata and deriv-ing suggestions of changes in the corresponding ontologies.More precisely,we describe a method to capture(1)the evolution of di?erent types of metadata and(2)the implied changes in the related(networked)ontologies.The proposed methodology relies on a bottom-up approach for capturing the relations between metadata evolution and ontology changes.First,the data contained in a set of existing documents/resources has to be automatically related to the considered ontologies,in order to form an exploitable corpus of ontology-based metadata. Metadata changes can then be captured on the basis of the generated structure, and the study of the implications of these changes on ontologies can be carried out,with the aim of deriving suggestions of corresponding ontology evolutions. We therefore aim to establish what e?ect the evolution of metadata has on the ontologies,in terms of ontology changes.For instance,if a new prominent term appears from a set of textual resources,a concept should be added in the on-

tology;if two terms appear to be related in the metadata(e.g.through frequent co-occurrence)then the ontology should be extended with a new relation.

Obtaining this exploitable corpus of metadata,linking the resources to the ontologies,leads to several common,generic or domain-speci?c issues: Pre-processing:First,the considered documents,resources and metadata can take di?erent forms,and may contain noise,redundancies,etc.A preprocess-ing step is generally required in order to obtain an exploitable corpus,including domain(or data)-dependent tasks such as?ltering,transformation,etc.

Conceptual Organisation:Once a set of descriptive terms is obtained for each of the considered documents,we need to identify from among these terms those that represent important domain concepts,which may be contained in the ontologies.More importantly,potential relations between these terms,or more precisely between the corresponding concepts,have to be detected.One possibility is to group(or cluster)the terms according to their relations in the documents,suggesting in this way potential relations in the ontologies.

Ontology Matching:Finally,the links between the obtained conceptual structure and the considered ontologies have to be established.This can be re-alised by using generic ontology matching techniques[1],mapping the organised terms to ontology concepts,and relating them according to ontology relations. It is worth noting that these mappings already provide indications of missing knowledge in the ontologies:the terms and relations for which there is no map-ping suggest missing concepts and relations.

These three tasks provide the basic structure which we rely on for capturing metadata changes and the related ontology evolutions.

4.2Capturing metadata changes

The evolution of the metadata can be captured through the changes occurring in the corresponding set of terms,conceptual structures,and mappings.Documents can be added or removed,leading to a di?erent(either extended or reduced)set of terms.The comparison of the results of the conceptual organisation of the terms obtained at di?erent times allows the consideration of changes from a more abstract(conceptual)point of view,indicating for example previously unknown relations between terms,or ones that have become obsolete.It is worth noticing here that these conceptual structures are not ontologies,but rather intermediary descriptions of the metadata,used to guide the integration(matching)with the considered ontologies,and facilitating the study of metadata evolution.Finally, new mappings to the ontologies may appear from the conceptual structure,and some may be modi?ed or reconsidered.Basically,by comparing the processed metadata at di?erent levels and di?erent time points,we can trace,capture and study these evolutions in an abstract,ontology-related representation.The outcome here is a characterisation of the changes in the metadata that may lead to particular evolution of ontologies.

4.3Suggesting ontology changes

Capturing the evolution of the metadata is only the?rst part of the problem. Each evolution may lead to an extension of the existing gap between the meta-data and the ontology coverage.For example,if some newly added terms have no correspondence in the ontologies,an extension with additional concepts and relations may be required.On the other hand,if the set of terms generated at any moment in time is smaller than the set of terms generated previously(e.g., because some data has been deleted or because some terms are less signi?cantly represented)then this can lead to the pruning of the ontologies in such a way that they do not contain obsolete concepts/relations.Our goal is to provide gen-eral principles for suggesting changes in ontologies in order to?ll this additional gap.More precisely,studying the evolution of real-life datasets would allow us to associate suggestions of changes in the ontology to typical changes in the cap-tured metadata,thus providing a basis for guiding the maintenance of ontologies according to the related metadata.

The proposed methodology for the bottom-up,metadata-driven evolution of ontologies is summarized in Figure1.It is illustrated in the next two sections (4.4and4.5)by the application to two real life case studies.

Fig.1.Schematic view of the bottom-up approach for ontology evolution

4.4Case Study1:Evolving ontologies through linking them to

folksonomies

Social tagging systems such as Flickr(http://www.?https://www.wendangku.net/doc/fe11634996.html,),for photo-sharing, and https://www.wendangku.net/doc/fe11634996.html,(https://www.wendangku.net/doc/fe11634996.html,),for social bookmarking,are becoming more and more popular,nowadays covering a wide range of resources and communi-ties,with a huge number of participants sharing and tagging a large number of

resources.Due to their popularity,folksonomies are changing rapidly as users add new resources and tags.Because they are updated continuously,folksonomies are up-to-date with respect to the vocabulary used by a wide range of people,thus re?ecting new terms that appear.Unlike folksonomies,ontologies are built at a much slower rate and therefore they often lag behind the novel terminology in a given domain.A solution for automatically enriching(and hence evolving)on-tologies is to align them to folksonomies and modify them so that they re?ect the changes in the folksonomies.This alignment is also bene?cial for folksonomies. Current tag sets lack any semantic relations and therefore are hard to use dur-ing searching.The alignment to ontologies allows the enrichment of folksonomies with semantic relations so that more semantic searches can be performed.

In this?rst case study,we investigate how ontology changes can be derived from changes in folksonomies.The process of linking folksonomies to ontologies has been described in[11]and will be used in the?rst part of the case study (as it covers the?rst three major steps of our methodology).We investigate the tag sets in Flickr and https://www.wendangku.net/doc/fe11634996.html,,due both to their popularity(with a large number of resources,users,and tags)and availability.In our experiments,we use the same Del.ici.ous tags as[11]and Flickr tags for photos posted between 01-02-2004and01-03-2006.

Having derived the metadata following the work of[11],we need to capture the way metadata changes.Our plan is to re-run the process described in their work at di?erent points in time and compare the output(i.e.,see how the ob-tained clusters di?er).We will identify clusters that have been added or which have disappeared.At a more?ne-grained level,for each cluster we will monitor internal changes,namely additions or elimination of some tags.All these types of changes have important in?uences on the evolution of the ontology.Our task will be to derive a wide range of metadata changes taking into account the metadata derived in our experiments.

Once a set of changes in the metadata has been identi?ed,these changes can be used to suggest corresponding updates to the ontologies.While this typology of changes will be derived when the experiments are run and therefore will be grounded in actual data,we can already predict some typical changes.For example,if a new cluster is added,then?nd an ontology that contains elements (concepts/relations)with the same label as the tags in the cluster.If the ontology only covers a subset of the terms,then?nd methods to extend the ontology with concepts corresponding to the missing tags.If a new tag is added to a cluster, then if no corresponding concept exists in the ontology to which the cluster was aligned,insert the tag in the ontology.

4.5Case Study2:Data Driven Ontology Learning on F AO data The second case study is performed on a di?erent type of data set from the previous case study.In this case,we investigate how ontologies can be evolved through applying ontology learning methods to textual data.The data set used is

a collection of textual data from the FAO4(United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation,Fisheries Department).There are several collections,including news items,fact sheets on species and internal documentation.

We envisage that pre-processing will be performed using existing software packages.In particular,we will experiment with three tools:TermExtractor[10]–a web service for the extraction of domain relevant terminology;GATE[4]–a suite of natural language applications for document annotation;Text2Onto [3]–an ontology learning tool that provides a variety of algorithms needed for the entire process of ontology learning.Some of these algorithms deal with the simplest task in ontology learning,that of extracting relevant terms from a corpus.

The next step is one of conceptual organisation,which aims at deriving some meaningful structure between the identi?ed terms.Again,we envisage the pos-sibility to use two di?erent kinds of packages to perform this task:clustering algorithms for when TermExtractor is used,leading to clusters similar to those obtained in case study1;and the ontology learning algorithms from Text2Onto to derive an ontological structure between the identi?ed terms(including sub-sumption relations,mereological relations,general relations).

Depending on the conceptual structure derived previously,we can use a va-riety of ontology matching approaches to align these structures to ontologies. Simple,string-similarity based methods can be used to?nd correspondences between terms in a cluster and the labels of ontology elements.If the derived structures are richer than sets of terms,we can also employ structural matching methods to?nd alignments between the derived ontologies and the ontologies (ontology networks)that need to be updated.

Capturing metadata changes and linking them to updates in the correspond-ing ontologies will be the topic of our investigation after running the above men-tioned experiments.We can already say,however,that these types of changes will somehow depend on the kind of conceptual structure that the metadata takes.If we derive clusters of terms,then we can provide a similar typology of changes as in case study1.If the conceptual structures derived are ontologies,then we can re-use and extend Klein’s typology of changes to capture changes between on-tologies derived at di?erent moments in time and then suggest adequate changes in the ontologies.

5Conclusion and Future Directions

In this paper we have described a framework and methodology to capture the dynamics of metadata,consisting of two main aspects:the evolution of metadata when an ontology changes,and changes to the ontology resulting from metadata evolution.The?rst aspect involves using the Klein and Noy ontology as a start-ing point,and proposing changes in order to make it more suitable for our needs. We then discuss how this will be implemented.For the second aspect,we have 4https://www.wendangku.net/doc/fe11634996.html,

described a methodology for capturing changes in metadata with the aim of suggesting changes in the related ontologies.We adopt a bottom-up approach, studying the evolution of real-life datasets to come up with general principles for metadata-driven ontology evolution.In this line of approach,we propose to ap-ply this methodology to two concrete case studies,using two di?erent datasets, and two di?erent forms of metadata:tags of folksonomies,and texts related to the agricultural domain.Therefore,the obvious next step of this work is to run the experiments corresponding to these case studies,capturing the evolution of the metadata by relating the considered resources to the considered ontologies at di?erent points in time.We believe that the study of these ontology-based metadata evolutions will allow us to understand and potentially capture the im-plications of metadata changes on the related ontologies.The concrete outcome of this work should be general rules for suggesting ontology changes to re?ect metadata changes,providing a basis for a metadata-driven ontology evolution.

Since metadata changes lead to ontology changes,and ontology changes lead to metadata changes,the interactions between these two processes have to be considered.We can therefore imagine an integrated process that would alterna-tively suggest changes in ontologies and metadata until a stable version of both elements is obtained.

6Acknowledgements

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