Methods for Presenting Ontological Knowledge to the Mobile Employees

Laclavik M., Balogh Z., Nguyen T. G., Gatial E., Hluchy L.

Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences
Dubravska cesta 9, 845 07 Bratislava, Slovakia

laclavik.ui@savba.sk

In this article we discuss possibilities of presenting formalized knowledge. We focus on knowledge represented by ontology. Ontologies are powerful for knowledge representation but are understandable mainly for experts, thus need to be transformed to human understandable form. We discuss different possibilities such as trees, graphs or semantic web activities based on markup languages. We also describe our approach used within the scope of the Pellucid project- EU 5FP RTD IST-2001-34519 - A Platform for Organisationally Mobile Public Employees. Our approach is based on OWL ontology and commercial standards and technologies such as XML, RDF, XSLT. The main idea is to transform knowledge in OWL to plain XML, which is then transformed to HTML by XSLT templates.