ODM (http://www.omg.org/docs/ad/06-05-01.pdf)
does a good job of providing meta models for multiple ontology languages (such
as CL, OWL, Topic Maps) as well as mappings between many of them. It
does not, however, normalize those meta models into common elements or "atomic
structures" and, as Bill says, does not say anything about the capabilities or
use cases for those languages.
-Cory Casanave
This exists and it's called ODM, or at least until something better
comes along. But ODM really only says things about documents formed from
sentences in this or that logical language and doesn't inform the discussion of
"ontology" as meant by Steve, Peter, and Leo.
On Jan 18, 2007, at 14:31 , Teller, Jacob wrote:
Suppose there existed a meta model
of “Ontology” that created and linked all of the atomic structures that an
ontology could/should have according to
the consensus of the Ontolog community. Then this meta-model would be
capable of having mappings to all of those local “Ontologies” that are in
reality thesauri, or conceptual models, or taxonomies, or use cases,
etc. These mappings would clearly show what is and IS NOT included in
the local offering and this then becomes a relatively straightforward set of
comparison points for what one is referring to as “I have an
Ontology.”
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