Spatial Ontology for the Production Domain of Petroleum Geology

• Main Author: Liadey, Dickson M.
• Format: Others
• Published: Digital Archive @ GSU 2012
• Subjects: Ontology; Semantic Web; OWL; Class; Petroleum Geology; SWEET ontology
• Online Access: http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/geosciences_theses/46; http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1042&context=geosciences_theses

ABSTRACT The availability of useful information for research strongly depends on well structured relationships between consistently defined concepts (terms) in that domain. This can be achieved through ontologies. Ontologies are models of the knowledge of specific domain such as petroleum geology, in a computer understandable format. Knowledge is a collection of facts. Facts are represented by RDF triples (subject-predicate-object). A domain ontology is therefore a collection of many RDF triples, which represent facts of that domain. The SWEET ontologies are upper or top-level ontologies (foundation ontologies) consisting of thousands of very general concepts. These concepts are obtained from of Earth System science and include other related concepts. The work in this thesis deals with scientific knowledge representation in which the SWEET ontologies are extended to include wider, more specific and specialized concepts used in Petroleum Geology. Thus Petroleum Geology knowledge modeling is presented in this thesis.