Ontology management using web service

We are living the Semantic Web age as the third stage of Internet, Web 3.0.Semantic Web is intended to combine any accessable information by semanticalconnections in the age of digital data increasing day by day.Semantic Web, unlike the previous stages of the Internet, intends to generateand process the semantic content instead of the syntactic content. Semantic Webincludes new concepts and technologies so that computers can resolve meanings ofdata and their connections with each other.Today Semantic Web is being used by rapidly increasing numbers of webapplications for data management, customization and integration, workspacemodeling, natural language interface, text mining, semantic specification and social web.One of the future necessity for the web applications using Semantic Web isgoing to be managing and sharing of the semantic content. Content management hasbeen an important subject until the ?Participating Web? age, which means web site?scontents mostly created by the users. Content management is also important toidentify semantic content and expand it for the semantic age.At the present time one of the technologies which Internet applications areheaded is web service. Web service technology has become standart because of beingXML based, using a quite common protocol such as HTTP, being flexible, modular,and platform independent.In this thesis, it is examined how to implement remote management ofontologies, the main components of Semantic Web, via web services and an exampleapplication is shown.