Re: vocabularies and data alignment

So basically, you want to see how everybody is aligning ontologies?

I'm also a bit confused

P.S. if so, have you read the Ontology Matching book?

Juan Sequeda, Ph.D Student
Dept. of Computer Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin
www.juansequeda.com
www.semanticwebaustin.org


On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:07 AM, François Scharffe <
francois.scharffe@inria.fr> wrote:

> Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>
>> François Scharffe wrote:
>>
>>> Hugh Glaser wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> To put it in simple terms for me :-)
>>>> Are you after the algorithms we use to identify when two instances are
>>>> the same?
>>>> Best
>>>> Hugh
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes !
>>>
>>> François
>>>
>>
>> So if the answer is "Yes". Then do you mean things in the ABox and TBox?
>> Must be clear here as being too generic leads to confusion.
>>
>
> Link generators are working at the instance level (ABox), they generate
> links between instances. They need some input, a specification of what
> should be interlinked. We think this specification can be lifted to an
> alignment between vocabularies (TBoxes). Well we are not 100% sure this will
> work, that's why we would like to get such tools and their linkage
> specifications.
> I can take an example, interlinking persons: one dataset is described with
> FOAF, the other with VCard.
> ?x foaf:name ?name.
> ?y vc:n [
>        vc:family-name ?fn;
>        vc:given-name ?gn.
>        ].
> the linkage specification might be something like:
> if compare(?name, concat(?gn," ",?fn)) > threshold
> then output("?x owl:sameAs ?y")
>
> In fact, this specification says
> foaf:name <-> concat(vc:given-name," ",vc:family-name)
> which is an alignment at the TBox level that can be lifted from the linkage
> specification.
>
> I hope I was clear enough this time ;)
>
>
> Cheers,
> François
>
>
>> sameAs is not the best way to align things in the TBox.
>>
>> Kingsley
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 11/06/2009 12:57, "François Scharffe" <francois.scharffe@inria.fr>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear LODers,
>>>>
>>>> There has been a couple of discussions already on this list on the need
>>>> for a vocabulary to represent correspondences between terms of different
>>>> vocabularies. We also saw recently various tools (e.g. Silk, ODDlinker)
>>>> allowing to automatically interlink datasets given a specification of
>>>> what should be linked.
>>>>
>>>> However, there is currently no common way to publish and share this
>>>> information (i.e., not the links but the way to generate them, see [1]
>>>> for precision).
>>>>
>>>> We are setting up an experiment [1] to see if it is possible to provide
>>>> useful services from this data. But for that purpose we need your help.
>>>>
>>>> So this is a call for contribution: we are collecting any specification
>>>> of link generator for the LOD graph.
>>>>
>>>> Of course, do not hesitate to comment on the idea or to tell us if you
>>>> want to be involved.
>>>>
>>>> We promise a report on this by the end of summer (northern hemisphere
>>>> :).
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> François
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://melinda.inrialpes.fr
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>