An ontology framework for semantic web illustrating ontology merging

Ontology's significance cannot be denied for realizing the vision of semantic web to add semantics or computer understandable data to the existing human readable web as it enables to structure and conceptualize the shared knowledge of a particular domain on web. But Ontology is abstract and involves various complex issues. This paper presents a framework for such multifarious possible issues of ontology which have been briefly presented. One of the significant issues, ontology merging, has been illustrated with an example using protégé 3.4.1 editor.