Marketplace-Level Domain Ontologies

To enable semantic interoperability with external services and platforms, the Virtual Materials Marketplace (VIMMP) project has developed a system of marketplace-level domain ontologies, supporting the ingest and retrieval of data and metadata at the VIMMP marketplace front end; these ontologies are expressed in OWL2 using TTL notation [1]. Internally, VIMMP uses the marketplace-level domain ontologies as a part of its approach to data management, underlying the interactions with users. This chapter and the subsequent two chapters present ontologies from the VIMMP project and their relation to other work, including other ontologies.