Designing the Business Ontology of Ehya Iron Company based on Semantic Web Data Models

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to design the business ontology of Ehya Sepahan company based on semantic web data models. This research was conducted using qualitative analysis and design method The population of this research was all the entities of Ehya Sepahan company, i.e. data resources, human resources, organizational posts, the desired processes of the organization and various departments of the mentioned organization, as well as the classes and attributes in the organizational ontology. Observation and documentary methods and checklist are utilized for gathering required data.The findings of this research showed that the entities of Ehya Sepahan company are devided to internal and external entities. On the other hand, the findings revealed that most of the attributes considered for company entities are presented in the schema.org standard. So, all the mentioned attributes for Organization, Person, Website, Product entities in the schema.org are consistent with the attributes needed to describe the company entities. On the other hand, the investigation of organizational ontology showed that this ontology has 9 entities and all these entities were used to design the ontology of Ehya Sepahan company. As a result, a suitable ontology was implemented for participating in the Knowledge discovery and Representation (KDR) software. In general, it can be stated that organizational ontologies are one of the efficient tools for accurate description and knowledge discovery of data entities of organizations that can be used to facilitate and speed up processes and decisions in the organization.

Keywords

• organizational ontology
• semantic web data models
• organizational entities
• ahya sepahan iron and steel company
• schema.org