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[ontology-summit] OWl and Knowledge reuse via import and modularization

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From: Gary Berg-Cross <gbergcross@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 14:34:10 -0500
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OWL provides an owl:imports construct that allows people to combine ontologies by including all the axioms contained in an external ontology in one’s local ontology. But then , everything in the transitive closure of the imported ontology becomes a part of the local ontology. Have people found this to be a problem for their work and if so what are best practices around it?

There seem to be a number of efforts to get around this,such as modular approaches  but I'm not sure what the experience has been with them.The 
Survey of modular ontology techniques and their applications in the biomedical domain
by
Jyotishman Pathak,* Thomas M. Johnson, and Christopher G. Chute has some discussion.


Survey of modular ontology techniques and their applications in the biomedical domain

Jie Bao, Giora Slutzki and Vasant Honavar proposed a modular ontology language to get around 

Perhaps others have some experience with what these discuss.

Gary Berg-Cross, Ph.D.  
NSF INTEROP Project  
SOCoP Executive Secretary
Knowledge Strategies    
Potomac, MD
240-426-0770

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