Abstract—In these days, ontology is the most popular and widespread formalism of knowledge representation. With the requirement of our system aSPOCMS (An Agent-based Semantic Web for Paperless Office Content Management System), we present the construction of university ontology to retrieve the information and accomplish the process of files of various sections by using the predefined workflow in university ontology. The aSPOCMS aims to provide the facility to manage and process the files/documents of various departments and sections of higher educational institutions (i.e. universities) in paperless environment. This paper reveals the conceptualization of university knowledge through construction of university ontology. Generalized structure of Indian universities and workflow processes have been taken for ontology development by describing the class hierarchy, and demonstrate the graphical view of ontology. We also demonstrate the ability of university ontology to execute intelligent query to retrieve the information.

Index Terms—semantic web, ontology, semanticworks tool, OWL, university concepts  

Cite: Sanjay K. Dwivedi and Anand Kumar, "Development of University Ontology for aSPOCMS," Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 213-221, August 2013. doi:10.4304/jetwi.5.3.213-221