- From: Rob Atkinson <rob@socialchange.net.au>
- Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 09:11:56 +1000
- To: public-sws-ig@w3.org
Hi Apologies if there is an obvious answer to this, but I havent been able to locate it via browsing, searching or asking yet: is there a working group, standard, best practice or even published proprietary API for deploying an ontology via Web Services. I am interested in the case of a community managed ontology, where working groups can be delegated to maintain parts of the ontology, all via a single web accessible repository. Applications would be able to search this repository as required. I would like the ability to: 1) insert, update or delete classes 2) find references that directly depend on a class 3) query 4) ideally, insert an entire OWL ontology including relationships to pre-existing classes... 5) ... which implies having a stable URI to reference items within the deployed ontology in the first place Maybe there is no API that makes sense, and its always only possible to think about publishing a single file, and using xlink to try to glue it all together - in which case there should be some serious thought somewhere about the query mechanisms you would use to perform typical ontology traversals. I'd be happy with a registry-friendly model where the transactions can be defined to be honest. Can anyone point me to where such deployment issues are being worked out? Regards Rob Atkinson
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