Publishing OWL Ontologies with Presto

Publishing RDF/OWL ontologies on the Semantic Web typically starts by placing the document in a web accessible location and ends with redirects of ontological components (classes, properties, individuals) to that the document. Unfortunately, this is seldom sufficient for expressive OWL ontologies in which reasoning is essential to determine the full extent of the entity in question. Moreover, the ability to dynamically query expressive ontologies yields new applications over static publishing including the possibility that these queries may be equivalent to new ontological entities. Here, we describe the design of a new tool for publishing OWL ontologies in a dynamic manner such that the ontology and all of its entities are web resolvable and queryable, hence opening new avenues for knowledge management on the Semantic Web.