Ontologies

TRAKS makes use ofW3C proposed recomendations of data representation with the goal of making available to the public our template matching algorithms. Someone that has already defined an ontology and has instance data is able to use TRAKS to detect certain scenarios of the data by defining one or more templates that capture the scenario, such as known money laundering operations, identity theft activities, terrorism planning, etc.

  In order to achieve this, the ontology is made available to TRAKS by indicating the URL the OWL file that describes it. We keep a local copy of the original ontology for efficiency purposes. More than one ontology can be uploaded to "match" a dataset and template because in the Demo you can select what ontology to use with a given dataset and template.