I am agree with John and Nicola. I think the lightweight approach for building
ontology is more appropriate since multidisciplinary work are coming day by
day. UML diagrams is a tool for starting (John mentioned). What do you think
about SKOS-XL instead OWL for building ontology?. (01)
Best regards,
Ahsan (02)
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Deborah, (04)
Thanks for those examples. (05)
But I would like to point out that they use UML diagrams, not OWL
to specify the ontology. (06)
> US National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) for example in the User Guide
> http://www.niem.gov/pdf/NIEM_User_Guide.pdf (07)
That guide does contain a number of examples that use XML, but it does
*not* use RDF, and the ontology is specified in UML. (08)
That supports my previous claim: (09)
> Most programmers (including many computer scientists) are not
> convinced that ontologies are useful, and even many who think
> that they might be useful have no idea where to start. (010)
So my recommended way of promoting ontology is to build on what
programmers already know and use: UML diagrams. (011)
Most programmers ignore the OCL language, which is a version of FOL
in a weird notation. My recommendation is to use controlled English
as a replacement for OCL. (012)
And that recommendation is right in line with the NIEM User Guide. (013)
John (014)
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