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A Model Driven Approach for Building OWL DL and OWL Full Ontologies
Saartje Brockmans1, Robert M. Colomb2, Peter Haase1, Elisa F. Kendall3, Evan K. Wallace4, Chris Welty5, and Guo Tong Xie6
1AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany
2School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Australia
3Sandpiper Software, Inc., Los Altos, California
4US National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland
5IBM Watson Research Center, New York
6IBM China Research Lab, China
Abstract. This paper presents an approach for visually modeling OWL DL and OWL Full ontologies based on the well-established visual modeling language UML. We discuss a metamodel for OWL based on the Meta-Object Facility, an associated UML profile as visual syntax, and transformations between both. The work we present supports model-driven development of OWL ontologies and is currently undergoing the standardization process of the Object Management Group. After describing our approach, we present the implementation of our approach and an example, showing how the metamodel and UML profile can be used to improve developing Semantic Web applications.
LNCS 4273, p. 187 ff.
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