Abstract:
In this paper we present work done towards populating a domain ontology using a public
knowledge base like DBpedia. Using an academic ontology as our target we identify mappings
between a subset of its predicates and those in DBpedia and other linked datasets. In the
semantic web context, ontology mapping allows linking of independently developed ontologies
and inter-operation of heterogeneous resources. Linked open data is an initiative in this
direction. We populate our ontology by querying the linked open datasets for extracting
instances from these resources. We show how these along with semantic web standards and
tools enable us to populate the academic ontology. Resulting instances could then be used as
seeds in spirit of the typical bootstrapping paradigm