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Re: [ontolog-forum] Invoice ontology discussion points/issues

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From: Adam Pease <adampease@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 18:15:37 -0700
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Mike,
   Excellent questions.  It will unfortunately be after next Monday before 
I can answer these in detail, due to a deadline.  It sounds like you're 
finding a lot of the right answers to me.    (01)

Adam    (02)

At 09:09 PM 7/10/2003 -0400, MDaconta@xxxxxxx wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>Began working on the UBL invoice ontology in protege.
>Attempting to reuse SUMO makes this extremely interesting.
>Some of the questions here can only be understood if you download
>the protege version of SUMO from ontology.teknowledge.com.
>
>Here is some of the things I have run into so far (For context, note
>that Invoice is a subclass of Document which is a subclass of Text, which 
>is a subclass of Artifact, which is a subclass ... (see SUMO) ):
>
>1. Invoice has a "Note" property in the XML version for some form of 
>random text attachment to an invoice.  Does this have a place in a formal 
>ontology?  My gut
>feel is no as I don't see how it would be used in any form of inference,
>axiom, etc.
>
>2. There is a field called Invoice types.  Did not see an enumerated list for
>these but if you find one -- tell me.  Probably need to be modeled as either
>subclasses or as axioms.
>
>3. There are CurrencyCodes for invoice, tax and pricing.  My take on this is
>that this is the same as defining a CurrencyType which can be modeled in
>protegy as a slot with a range of "Class" where you define the parent class
>and the valid values are any subclass.  So, I mapped this to the SUMO
>CurrencyMeasure class.
>
>4. An invoice can have one or more line items (see the UBL class diagrams),
>I modeled this as a subclass of SUMO "Class".  With the idea that it is an
>abstract concept which organizes pricing information in the invoice about
>a product.  An Invoice instance can then have multiple LineItem slots. Of
>course, the line item will point to a product, have a quantity, price, etc..
>Some axiom of Invoice would be how to calculate a total by summing the
>the prices in the Line Items ... etc.
>
>5. The way "date" is modeled in SUMO seems strange.  In the protege version
>(it may be more natural in KIF), this is modeled as an Instance of
>BinaryPredicate.  I get why date is a binary predicate (there is 
>documentation)
>but if I want a specific date attached as a slot, it is a binary predicate by
>default -- i.e.  date(ContainingClass, value).
>Also, in protege there is no way to say that a slot should be of type a
>specific instance (because an instance is not a domain, it is a range
>of some other domain).
>So what I did was for the specific dates in the UBL spreadsheet for
>Invoice (like "IssueDate") ... I made its value an Instance of Class 
>TimePoint.
>
>Comments/suggestion on any/all of the above are appreciated,
>
>I'll keep plugging away a little each day and hopefully have most of it
>done by the next meeting.
>
>- Mike
>---------------------------------------------------
>Michael C. Daconta
>Chief Scientist, APG, McDonald Bradley, Inc.
>www.daconta.net    (03)

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