D3.1.1 Ontology Management and Evolution - Survey, Methods and Prototypes

EU-IST Integrated Project (IP) IST-2003-506826 SEKT Deliverable D3.1.1 (WP1.1) We present a survey of related work on ontology management and evolution. We then describe methods for evolution of OWL ontologies and their partial implementation in the prototypes dlpconvert and evOWLution. The appendix contains a detailed user guide for various tools of the KAON tool suite which forms a basic ontology management infrastructure.