Semantic Web, Ontology, Ontology Creation

To retrieve any information from the Web, a search has to be performed onbillions of documents which are unorganized, unstructured and unreadable bymachines. To overcome this problem, the data on the Web has to be formalized in amachine readable format. One of the solutions is to use the Semantic Webtechnology which provides structure and meaning to data on the Web. In order toprovide machine readable and semantically identified information, the Semantic Webtechnology utilizes ontologies which include resources, properties and their relationsto identify metadata about data. The current ontology editors require expertise tocreate, organize, edit and manage ontologies. In this study, a generic ontologycreation tool is developed for users with no expertise in ontology creation. The toolwhich can be easily and effectively used at every level of a business gathersinformation about the ontology from a non-expert providing step by step guidancewith user interfaces.The aim is to enable any employee of a firm to create anontology in their domain to be able to share information in machine-readable formwith the rest of his/her company or other companies. The tool is tested on users whohave different working experiences in terms of years and sectors of business. Theresults are evaluated with statistical methods which show that on the average, theusers are satisfied with the tool and are able to create ontologies in their owndomains.