Due to the dynamic nature of the semantic web, ontology version control is required to capture time-varying information, most importantly for widely-used ontologies. Despite the long-standing recognition of ontology versioning (OV) as a crucial component for efficient ontology management, the growing size of ontologies and accumulating errors caused by manual labour overwhelm current OV approaches. In this paper, we propose yet another approach to performing OV using existing ontology matching (OM) techniques and systems. We introduce a unified OM4OV pipeline. From an OM perspective, we reconstruct a new task formulation, performance measurement, and dataset construction for OV tasks. Reusing the prior alignment(s) from OM, we also propose a cross-reference mechanism to effectively reduce the matching candidature and improve overall OV performance. We experimentally validate the OM4OV pipeline and its cross-reference mechanism using three datasets from the Alignment Evaluation Initiative (OAEI) and exploit insights on OM used for OV tasks.

本文解决了语义网中本体版本控制的难题，尤其是在广泛使用的本体中。提出了一种新的方法，基于现有的本体匹配技术，构建了OM4OV管道，并引入了交叉引用机制，以提高本体版本控制的性能。研究结果表明，该方法在三个数据集上表现出色，具有重要的实际应用潜力。

OM4OV：利用本体匹配进行本体版本控制