Leveraging the Construction of Semantic Web Applications Using the Model Driven Architecture

This paper describes an ongoing research work carried out at the Software Engineering Laboratory of the Computer Science Department at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. This work tries to leverage the construction of Semantic Web applications through the use of OMG's Model Driven Architecture (MDA). An annotation tool was developed to manage the knowledge of a group of researchers and now some tools to access the semantically annotated data need to be developed. For that purpose, the use of MDA seems quite applicable.