KIM Ontologies

KIM is "educated" with common world knowledge that is used as a context background for semantic annotation. It can be modified or extended to suit specific applications.

• PROTON is a lightweight upper-level ontology defining about 300 classes and 100 properties in OWL Light. It provides coverage of the most general concepts, with focus on named entities (people, locations, organizations) and concrete domains (numbers, dates, etc.).
• KIM World Knowledge Base (WKB) aims to cover the common knowledge that we normally have beyond our cultural context (e.g. country and hobby).
• Most applications of the KIM require extending the conceptual models with domain ontologies and the underlying knowledge base with domain specific entities and facts. Custom knowledge bases have been engineered in each of the domains where the KIM has been applied.
• PROTON can also be aligned to DBpedia and Linked Data.