Ontology Maker
AI-assisted ontology generation for infrastructure and policy.
Lead development
Partners: Infrastructure sector partners
Outputs: Ontology generation tool, Standards-aligned data models
Ontology Maker is a tool that uses AI to help domain experts create, refine, and validate formal ontologies for infrastructure systems.
The challenge
Building ontologies traditionally requires deep expertise in both the domain and in knowledge representation. This creates a bottleneck — the people who understand infrastructure best are rarely the ones who build the data models that describe it.
The approach
Ontology Maker bridges this gap by using large language models to:
- Extract concepts and relationships from domain documents
- Suggest ontological structures based on established standards
- Validate proposed ontologies against real-world data
- Generate human-readable documentation alongside machine-readable formats
Impact
The tool is being developed in collaboration with infrastructure organisations to ensure that the ontologies it generates are practical, standards-compliant, and decision-relevant.