OntoForms: User interface structure from a domain ontology

Abstract: This paper presents a software component that generates a user interface structure for populating a domain ontology. The core of this work is an algorithm that takes an ontology and returns a structure describing the user interface. The component also provides functions for populating the ontology and editing existing individuals. Unlike previous approaches, this method can be implemented without any configuration. Additionally, it offers an easy-to-use configuration mechanism that allows irrelevant classes to be hidden and automatically populated. What distinguishes this work is that, instead of exploring the ontology using syntactic methods or queries, our algorithm employs services that implement description logic inference mechanisms. This work illustrates the proposed approach using the well-known wine ontology.