A Model Driven Approach for Building OWL DL and OWL Full Ontologies

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A paper written by Robert M. Colomb, Guo Tong Xie, Saartje Brockmans, Elisa F. Kendall, Evan K. Wallace and Chris Welty. It was presented at the ISWC2006.

[edit] Abstract

This paper presents an approach for visually modeling OWL DL and OWL Full ontologies based on the well-established visual modeling language UML. We discuss a metamodel for OWL based on the Meta-Object Facility, an associated UML profile as visual syntax, and transformations between both. The work we present supports model-driven development of OWL ontologies and is currently undergoing the standardization process of the Object Management Group. After describing our approach, we present the implementation of our approach and an example, showing how the metamodel and UML profile can be used to improve developing Semantic Web applications.

The schedule for this talk can be found in the conference programme and a linked list of all talks is provided in the article on ISWC2006 papers. This article has originally been created from the RDF metadata for ISWC 2006.

[edit] Questions

The following questions have been asked after the talk at ISWC2006:

  • "Did you find any limitations in modelling OWL fully?"
  • "Indeed, several. E.g. the MOV currently does not support multiple classification (just multiple inheritence is supported). We submitted a new proposal for fixing MOV, but currently we need to use workarounds. "
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