An ontology-based approach to Automatic Generation of GUI for Data Entry

This thesis reports an ontology-based approach to automatic generation of highly tailored GUI components that can make customized data requests for the end users. Using this GUI generator, without knowing any programming skill a domain expert can browse the data schema through the ontology file of his/her own field, choose attribute fields according to business's needs, and make a highly customized GUI for end users' data requests input. The interface for the domain expert is a tree view structure that shows not only the domain taxonomy categories but also the relationships between classes. By clicking the checkbox associated with each class, the expert indicates his/her choice of the needed information. These choices are stored in a metadata document in XML. From the viewpoint of programmers, the metadata contains no ambiguity; every class in an ontology is unique. The utilizations of the metadata can be various; I have carried out the process of GUI generation. Since every class and every attribute in the class has been formally specified in the ontology, generating GUI is automatic. This approach has been applied to a use case scenario in meteorological and oceanographic (METOC) area. The resulting features of this prototype have been reported in this thesis.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.S.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Computer Science

Year

2009

Author dc:creator

• Liu, Fangfang

Contributors dc:contributor

• Tu, Shengru
• Roussev, Vassil
• Richard III, Golden

• Ontology
• Graphic user interface
• OWL/RDF
• Jena

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1094

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.uno.edu:td-2075