Construction and Representation of Shipping Domain Ontology Based on Ontology Design Patterns

Shipping data is one of the important contents of open government data. Linked data is the highest standard and effective way to improve the openness of shipping data. Ontology is also the core step and key link for building shipping linked data. In order to solve the problem of the lack of domain ontology support for the construction of shipping linked data, and also to absorb and learn from the excellent ideas and best practices of other ontology construction, this paper introduces typical ontology design patterns and realizes a method for constructing a shipping ontology basing on the design patterns. The obtained ontology is encoded in a machine readable format to meet the automatic processing requirements of the application program. The research results of this paper not only provide a set of feasible ontology solutions for the construction of shipping linked data, but also provide some reference for the ontology construction practice in other fields basing on the design patterns.