Project Overview

This project is concerned with organization of repositories on the Net. In the original project proposal, I had stated that

There are Internet sites with many text resources
Often hand made indices or search engines are used to access data
Ontologies and automatic categorization provide alternative means to traditional navigation/search paradigm

and I had aimed to

Survey both ontology and automatic categorization methods
Develop a repository categorization tool using either of the approaches
Categorize a sample text repository with the tool

Naturally, the original aims were too broad. Hence, I've restricted the project goals to

Surveying ontology methods for categorization of repositories
Designing and perhaps implementing categorization software for repositories on the Net.

In the subsequent sections, I present the problem about large repositories, afterwards I give background information and references about Ontology methods. Then, I design a software for applying ontology methods to repositories. In the discussions, it is assumed without loss of generality that the repository contains items in a particular domain such as painting.