| dc.description.abstract | Many different industrial companies and business corporations have chosen ontologies as their conceptual foundation in order to deal with the rise of modern information interchange. The dynamic and continuous changes in the business environment lead to consecutive customization in the requirements which can only be accomplished by modifying the elemental ontologies.
Book databases are now very diverse and increase every day. Therefore, book management is more difficult when book-database structure changes or the metadata of book changes in order to store various fields of book data, such as ISBN, category, target audience, etc. Moreover, book database schemas of different libraries are often different, thus searching books through those libraries faces some problems of heterogeneous data structure or duplicate data.
The aim of this study is to generate an underlying book ontology and create an evolution tool to adopt changes of that ontology applied in multiple digital libraries. The ontology evolution process allows manipulating the ontology modification, ensures the logical consistency between statements, and supports users in executing the customization. | en_US |
