For my University project I have building a PHP/MySQL social networking website aimed at PhD students, as well as having a monitoring section for supervisors of these students.
As part of the project I have to build an ontology and use this for 'matching', i.e. bringing up relevant papers/events/friends for a certain user, even if the terms are not string matches or contain any similar words
I'm having a little trouble getting started though and I was wondering if someone with any experience in this field could point me in the right direction.
Apparently OWL and RDF are written in XML, so if I were to build an ontology with the relevant relations between terms in XML, how would I then apply this to my MySQL/PHP website, preserving the relations between terms that I have specified?
I've heard of something called Protege-OWL, but I am not sure how this would be useful to me. I cannot find anything much online regarding OWL and PHP, which is odd to me as PHP is a very commonly used language for websites.
I can't seem to find a 'noob' introductory guide to this stuff so I am afraid I am in need of a little help
Thanks in advance for your help!
[Edit]
I've found these links: http://powl.sourceforge.net/overview.php, and http://arc.semsol.org/
Are these the sort of thing I need to be looking at?
As part of the project I have to build an ontology and use this for 'matching', i.e. bringing up relevant papers/events/friends for a certain user, even if the terms are not string matches or contain any similar words
I'm having a little trouble getting started though and I was wondering if someone with any experience in this field could point me in the right direction.
Apparently OWL and RDF are written in XML, so if I were to build an ontology with the relevant relations between terms in XML, how would I then apply this to my MySQL/PHP website, preserving the relations between terms that I have specified?
I've heard of something called Protege-OWL, but I am not sure how this would be useful to me. I cannot find anything much online regarding OWL and PHP, which is odd to me as PHP is a very commonly used language for websites.
I can't seem to find a 'noob' introductory guide to this stuff so I am afraid I am in need of a little help
Thanks in advance for your help!
[Edit]
I've found these links: http://powl.sourceforge.net/overview.php, and http://arc.semsol.org/
Are these the sort of thing I need to be looking at?