The Semantic Web is a family of technologies that in the last decade increased its diffusion outside the academia, especially in business and industry contexts. As a natural consequence, the related security issues deriving from the adoption of such technologies has become urgent. However, even though the Semantic Web technological stack provides some layers to secure semantic-based applications, the proposed layers are only defined conceptually. Hence, providing to developers new approaches for defining security policies for accessing semantic data in a general and clear way becomes necessary, as demanded by the FAIR (Future Artificial Intelligence Research) principles. The work presented in this paper aims to preliminarily anticipate and define a general and verticalisable ontological meta-model for securing semantic data, and specifically for implementing security properties and policies. Such meta-model can be leveraged by knowledge engineers to establish at low level how software and users should consume data, in order to lighten the applications from the management of security risks.

A meta-ontological approach to securing the semantic web data

Bella G.;Cantone D.;Castiglione G.;Santamaria D. F.
2024-01-01

Abstract

The Semantic Web is a family of technologies that in the last decade increased its diffusion outside the academia, especially in business and industry contexts. As a natural consequence, the related security issues deriving from the adoption of such technologies has become urgent. However, even though the Semantic Web technological stack provides some layers to secure semantic-based applications, the proposed layers are only defined conceptually. Hence, providing to developers new approaches for defining security policies for accessing semantic data in a general and clear way becomes necessary, as demanded by the FAIR (Future Artificial Intelligence Research) principles. The work presented in this paper aims to preliminarily anticipate and define a general and verticalisable ontological meta-model for securing semantic data, and specifically for implementing security properties and policies. Such meta-model can be leveraged by knowledge engineers to establish at low level how software and users should consume data, in order to lighten the applications from the management of security risks.
2024
Ontologies
OWL
RDF
Security
Semantic Web
SWRL
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