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Breaking Accessibility Barriers: An Ontology Proxy with Failure Recovery and Time Travel Capabilities

Year: 2025

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: This paper introduces a novel concept and implementation of an ontology proxy designed to seamlessly enhance accessibility and reliability of the Web of Ontologies by addressing challenges such as link rot, evolution inconsistencies, and communication failures.The proxy features a time travel mode, powered by DBpedia Archivo, that provides access to archived and versioned snapshots of ontologies.This enables failure recovery and the emulation of a consistent state in time, supporting reproducible research and enhancing the FAIRness of ontologies and associated (meta)data in a plug-andplay manner.Initial evaluations show significant improvements in ontology retrieval success rates, underscoring the proxy's potential as a viable interface for breaking accessibility barriers.

DOI: 10.1145/3701716.3715531

Authors: Johannes Frey, Jenifer Tabita Ciuciu-Kiss, Natanael Arndt

Institutions: Institut für Angewandte Informatik (InfAI) e. V., Leipzig University, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Language: English

Topic: Semantic Web and Ontologies

Subfield: Artificial Intelligence

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Funder: Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz

OpenAlex ID: W4410638114

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