University Ontology for Choice Based Credit System

Abstract

The classical web is based on HTML which cannot be exploited by information retrieval techniques. Processing of information on web is mostly restricted to manual keyword searches which results in irrelevant information retrieval. This limitation can be overcome by a web architecture known as semantic web which is an intelligent and meaningful web proposed by Sir Tim Berner’s Lee. In his roadmap for semantic web, Ontology plays a pivotal role in information exchange, use and re-use of knowledge, shared and common understanding of a domain that can be communicated between people and across application systems. Ontology can be used to capture knowledge about any domain of interest with the objective of incorporating the machine-understandable data on the current human-readable web. In this document, we consider the education domain and demonstrate the development of a University Ontology using Protégé 4.2 Editor. Mysore University, Mysore, India has been taken as a case for the Ontology Development. This university has implemented Choice Based Credit System (CBCS).Various aspects like super class and sub class hierarchy and relations among them have been demonstrated. Sample execution of DL query and SPARQL query has been shown as a proof of concept.