An Ontology Server for AgentCities.NET

Within this six month deployment project[1] we have concentrated on taking forward the ideas and systems developed in a number of initiatives in which UKOLN has been involved, chiefly among these the EU-funded DESIRE[6] and SCHEMAS projects[7], the UK MEG Registry project[15] and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative[5]. All of these projects explored approaches to declaring and sharing metadata vocabularies using RDF Schemas[18]. We have adapted software for a metadata vocabulary registry to serve as an ontology server which can be queried by agents on the Agentcities.NET network. The contents of the server comprises metadata vocabularies which may be regarded as simple forms of ontology.