Crossing the chasm between ontology engineering and application development: A survey

The adoption of Knowledge Graphs (KGs) by public and private organizations to integrate and publish data has increased in recent years. Ontologies play a crucial role in providing the structure for KGs, but are usually disregarded when designing Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to enable br...

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Published in:Web semantics Vol. 70; p. 100655
Main Authors: Espinoza-Arias, Paola, Garijo, Daniel, Corcho, Oscar
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier B.V 01.07.2021
Subjects:
Application development
Knowledge graph
Ontology
Ontology engineering
OWL
Web API
Web API
Application development
Ontology
OWL
Ontology engineering
Knowledge graph
ISSN:1570-8268, 1873-7749
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Summary:The adoption of Knowledge Graphs (KGs) by public and private organizations to integrate and publish data has increased in recent years. Ontologies play a crucial role in providing the structure for KGs, but are usually disregarded when designing Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to enable browsing KGs in a developer-friendly manner. In this paper we provide a systematic review of the state of the art on existing approaches to ease access to ontology-based KG data by application developers. We propose two comparison frameworks to understand specifications, technologies and tools responsible for providing APIs for KGs. Our results reveal several limitations on existing API-based specifications, technologies and tools for KG consumption, which outline exciting research challenges including automatic API generation, API resource path prediction, ontology-based API versioning, and API validation and testing.
ISSN:1570-8268
1873-7749
DOI:10.1016/j.websem.2021.100655