International Journal of Information Science and Management (IJISM)

Development of Qur'anic Ontologies: A Domain Review Study

Document Type : Articles

Authors

Ali Mirarab 1
Faezeh Sadat Tabatabai Amiri 2
Somaye Dehghanisanij 3
Najmeh HosseinKhalili 4

1 Assistant Prof., Faculty of Knowledge Dissemination, Islamic Sciences and Culture Academy, Qom, Iran

2 Ph.D. Candidate, Knowledge and Information Science, Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, Iran

3 Ph.D. Student, Department of Medical Library and Information Science, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

4 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Computer Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Qom Branch, Qom, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.22034/ijism.2023.1977928.0
Abstract
This study aimed to identify research on different Qur'anic ontologies by providing a clear picture of the existing reality, activities, and progress in developing Qur'anic ontologies. Therefore, the present scoping review attempts to overview the breadth and scope of the research conducted around Qur'anic ontologies during 2017-2022. The methodological framework of Arksey and O'Malley (2005), who suggested five steps for conducting domain review, was used. The search strategy was conducted in 6 databases, including Emerald, Science Direct, IEEE Xplore Digital Library, Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus, in April 2022. As a result, 811 studies were identified. The EndNote ver. 9 reference management tool was used to organize the studies. Three hundred and seventeen duplicate articles and 362 unrelated articles were excluded. Maximum research has considered specific Qur'anic themes in creating Qur'anic ontologies, even though some studies have tried to construct an ontology of the entire Qur'an. English and Arabic were the most common languages used in developing existing Qur'anic ontologies. In addition, most of the research constructed monolingual thematic ontology, and limited studies have applied multilingual translation of the Qur'an to their ontology. Developing tools, programming languages, and methods used in most studies are Protégé, W3C Web Ontology Language (OWL), and Resource Description Framework (RDF), and the concept classification is the up-down approach. SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language (SPARQL) have been the proper evaluation tools and methods used in previous research. In contrast, Description Logic (DL) queries and human experts have only been used in a few studies. This study provided a practical indication of the shortcomings, problems, and suggestions in constructing and developing existing Qur'anic ontologies leading to comprehensive Qur'an ontology to disseminating correct knowledge of the Qur'an with the help of semantic technologies. In this way, creating a comprehensive Qur'anic ontology in Persian is suggested to overcome the limitations raised in previous research.
 

Keywords

Ontology
Qur'an
Scoping Review
Semantic Technologies
Semantic Retrieval
Qur'anic Concepts
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International Journal of Information Science and Management (IJISM)
Volume 21, Issue 3
Summer 2023
Pages 229-241

  • Receive Date 14 August 2022
  • Revise Date 01 July 2023
  • Accept Date 24 May 2023

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