Re: eiif and ontology proper

Ciao Paola,
my  favourite way of developing ontologies is that of arranging 'naive' 
concepts gathered from users (e.g. interviews) under categories coming 
from foundational ontology (e.g. continuant, occurrent, quality, region 
etc) like those you can find in DOLCE. Also, there is a methodology called 
OntoClean developed by Guarino (CNR, Italy) and Chris Welty (IBM, US) that 
can help a lot.

By the way, I'm trying to aling the current eiif uml model with DOLCE's 
categories and see what happens. For thechnical reasons (i.e. xmi) it's a 
little bit harder than I thought, but stay tuned ...

Cordiali Saluti, Best Regards,

Guido Vetere
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Re: eiif and ontology proper






Guido

I have set aside some time to work on this (mainly learning the tools) for 
the next week or so. I ll appreciate any assistance.

One thing I am still not sure, if there is a clear (formal) distinction 
between 

a) the top down approach - say, start modelling using DOLCE primitives 
from the start -

and/or

b) the bottom up approach which i think is what we are using here so far, 
that is, come up with a representative list of classes/entities, and then 
see how they fit or how they can be remodelled to fit the top level 
categories

I am sure there is plenty of literature, and as far as understand the 
classical ontology development approach is top down.

does anyone have pointers to

1. assume we want to model our ontology using DOLCE from the start, is 
there a methodology that we can follow? is this methodology DOLCE 
specific, or would suit any upper level ontology?

2. would it be a good idea to try out both approaches, and compare the 
results?

Thanks in advance

PDM



On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 7:01 AM, Renato Iannella <renato@nicta.com.au> 
wrote:
>
> On 22 Nov 2008, at 00:19, Guido Vetere wrote:
>
> And yes, I've some (limited) time to dedicate to this activity on 
WORKPAD
> (www.workpad-proj.eu) funds, so basically if you can send me (or point 
me
> to) the UML sources (XMI) of the models you've developed so far I can 
try
> aligning the current conceptualization with this top level and see if it
> make sense. We could also have DOLCE authors on board if needed. 
>
> Guido - have a look at section 3.1 of:
>  <
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/eiif/wiki/images/7/77/XGR-framework-20081106.pdf
>
>
> Cheers...  Renato Iannella
> NICTA
>
>



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