Re: [ontology-summit] OWl and Knowledge reuse via import and modularizat

[Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/5/14 12:41 PM, Barkmeyer, Edward J wrote:

Andrea Westerinen wrote:

 

> In a recent project, I used the equivalentClass OWL semantic to do this. For example, in a Person ontology, I defined the Person concept with its relevant properties.  When it came to the Person's Location - that was just an under-specified (i.e., empty) Location class.  I then found a Location ontology, developed by another group, and opted to use that.  Lastly, I defined an "integrating" ontology that imported the Person and Location ontologies, and specified an equivalence between the relevant concepts.  So, PersonNamespace:Location was defined as an equivalentClass to LocationNamespace:Location. Obviously, the application covered up all this for the users, and my triple store (with reasoner) handled the rest.

In my view, this is exactly the kind of thing OWL:equivalentClasses was intended to enable, and it is absolutely necessary to this kind of reuse.

+1

And it works very well!

Kingsley

 

-Ed

 

 

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