OntoWebber: a novel approach for managing data on the Web

Abstract

OntoWebber is a system for managing data on the Web with formally encoded semantics. It aims at solving the problems current technologies are confronted with, namely, the reusability of software components, flexibility in personalization, and ease of maintenance for data intensive Web sites. Based on a domain ontology and a site modeling ontology, site views on the underlying data can be constructed as site models. Instantiation of these models will create a browsable Web site, and manipulation of the site models helps to reduce the high effort of personalizing and maintaining the Web site. In this paper we present the architecture and demonstrate the major components of the system.