Re: UML diagrams

Dear all,

  ok, thanks for the suggestions. I now used Poseidon to generate the 
diagram attached.

Do we agree that this is the kind of diagram that we want to have?

If yes, I will look for another suitable tool as one needs to obtain a 
Poseidon license to save the models :-o

Bzw. do we agree on the cardinialities as they are indicated there?

Philipp.

Am 06.03.14 22:59, schrieb Aldo Gangemi:
> Two possibilities:
>
> 1) use yEd Graffoo notation: just downlaod the graphml file and put it in the same yEd directory: http://www.essepuntato.it/graffoo/, specification is there. However, cardinalities come as boxes where you can write owl restrictions in Manchester syntax. I put Silvio Peroni in cc, he developed Graffo and DiTTO.
>
> 2) use the ER notation, but as you say, Crow’s foot notation is used instead of numbers to express cardinalities.
>
> Another approximation is the diagram drawer in TopBraid Composer, which (after proper configuration) shows a UML-like notation with numeric cardinalities. It is generated automatically, and editing is not allowed.
> There are other possibilities (e.g. Enrico Franconi’s ICOM), but I should say that the perfect visual bridge between UML and OWL is yet to come.
>
> Using native UML editors like Poseidon are of course a possibility, but the semantics of class diagrams is not necessarily correspondent to OWL semantics (however, who cares if that is just for visually supporting intuition without formal claims …).
>
> Last possibility: use RDF Gravity, and configure nodes and edge filters to obtain what you want.
>
> Aldo
>
> On Mar 6, 2014, at 9:55:26 PM , Philipp Cimiano <cimiano@cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
>
>> Aldo, all,
>>
>> I started to use yEd. Attached are the two UML diagrams for the ontolex and the vartrans modules.
>>
>> However: how do I add cardinalities to the model using yEd. For instance I would like to say something like that the "sense" relation is functional, i.e. 1..1 -- 1..1 on both sides.
>>
>> How do I say that. I would really like to use some numeric cardinalities rather than weird symbols as people with a general modelling background can read them without knowing the symbols.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Philipp.
>>
>> Am 06.03.14 13:24, schrieb Aldo Gangemi:
>>> yEd with the Graffoo plugin
>>> Also model in ER with yEd and convert to DITTO plugin to check the assumptions
>>>
>>> Aldo
>>>
>>> sent by aldo from a mobile
>>>
>>>> On 06/mar/2014, at 13:06, "Armando Stellato" <stellato@info.uniroma2.it> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I used UML Designer
>>>> http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/uml-designer-eclipse-kepler-version#.
>>>> UxhcsfmwaN0
>>>> though it depends if it is useful to have a tool in Eclipse...
>>>>
>>>> Another option (probably even better considering we are talking RDF) is the
>>>> one from Top Braid:
>>>> http://composing-the-semantic-web.blogspot.it/2012/06/graphical-ontology-edi
>>>> ting-with.html
>>>> but I think it is only available in the standard edition (not free one)
>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Philipp Cimiano [mailto:cimiano@cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de]
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, March 6, 2014 6:58 AM
>>>>> To: public-ontolex@w3.org
>>>>> Subject: UML diagrams
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>
>>>>>   I think I would like to include some UML diagrams in our final model
>>>>> specification to give simple overviews of the modules, so we would have
>>>> five
>>>>> UML diagrams ideally ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone know a good tool for producing UML diagrams that runs on
>>>>> Mac/Linux?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Philipp.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>>
>>>>> Prof. Dr. Philipp Cimiano
>>>>>
>>>>> Phone: +49 521 106 12249
>>>>> Fax: +49 521 106 12412
>>>>> Mail: cimiano@cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> Prof. Dr. Philipp Cimiano
>>
>> Phone: +49 521 106 12249
>> Fax: +49 521 106 12412
>> Mail: cimiano@cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de
>>
>> Forschungsbau Intelligente Systeme (FBIIS)
>> Raum 2.307
>> Universität Bielefeld
>> Inspiration 1
>> 33619 Bielefeld
>>
>> <ontolex.png><vartrans.png>


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Prof. Dr. Philipp Cimiano

Phone: +49 521 106 12249
Fax: +49 521 106 12412
Mail: cimiano@cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de

Forschungsbau Intelligente Systeme (FBIIS)
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Universität Bielefeld
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33619 Bielefeld