Profile Report From: "Leo Obrst" To: "Ontolog-forums-cim3-net" Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 05:19 Subject: [ontolog] ontology tools and an ontology repository? Source: http://ontolog.cim3.org/forums/ontolog/0211/msg00008.html We are considering one possibility for our site: an ontology repository, wherein folks can register ontologies and/or build ontologies using Web-enabled tools, possibly hosted at our site. So some questions: How do you feel about: Question 11OntologyRepository? our site supporting an ontology repository? [X] 1. Yes [ ] 2. No Question 12WebOntologyTool? our site supporting a Web-enabled ontology tool (for developing ontologies)? [X] 1. Yes [ ] 2. No Question 13NoneOfTheAbove none of the above. Not a good idea, because: (Not Answered) Question 20WhichOntologyTools Which ontology tools do you use? Ontology tool I use/am familiar with: Protege 1.7 through 2/Owl/ezOWL, Isaviz, OilEd, Kaon, ideagraph, my own triples management tool (from 80's), SMORE, Archi, Agilense WebModeler, Adaptive, several semantic/data modeling tools, several concept mapping tools, several IE, IDEF, UML, and O... Question 21ToolCharacterization Can you characterize the tools: i.e., Web-enabled, ontology languages supported, cost/licensing, POCs, experience, etc. "I seek opensource, openstandard tools to recommend to folks in pursuing the use of my Enterprise Architecture and larger Enterprise Management methodologies, documented at http://one-world-is.com/beam. I also seek and recommend commercial tools as appropriate to the client's scale/budget and recognition of the business case for such." Question 22SupportiveToolProvider Do you know of a tool provider who might support such a public effort, hosted on our site? Candidate provider: I'll check. Question 30StdOntologyLanguages Which ontology languages (knowledge representation languages) should be the standard(s) for the ontologies? (Some examples: Ontolingua/KIF, Common Logic, OKBC, CycL, RDF/S, DAML+OIL, OWL, etc.) "I'd say OWL for now. I have a generalized object model that I've used over the past 22 years, which OWL Full comes closest to implementing, especially if using a MOF repository with my own extensions to the MOF Object Metaschema. I've watched these technologies evolve for two decades, hoping they would deliver the capabilities I seek and demonstrated with my own crude tools. I'd advise OWL on a MOF repository. In that way, the MOF repository can also provide CIM/WBEM capabilities for IT management, MDA (UML and CWM via XMI) for application and data modeling, SPEM for software process automation metaschema, WSDL/BPEL/WfMC standards for generalized value-chain flow (Web Services, Process Management, Human Workflow), all packaged as portions of a larger enterprise management ontology. My management ontology as two main areas: operations management integrated with dynamic intelligence management, both operating in a spiral life cycle (i.e., closed loop process)." Question 40AdditionalComments Additional Comments? "I'm not really that technical about the internals of ontology languages, tools, and programming, although I've tinkered with RDF/S and OWL most recently. I do almost all my modeling graphically and let the tool take care of the format/language/content/repository. I'm more concerned with justifying and expanding the use of ontologies and their features/capabilities/benefits in supporting enterprise management, than in their technical details of their implementations and interfaces." Question 50MyEmail My E-mail address is: roy@one-world-is.com