RE: UML => OWL, SKOS => OWL?

Great, thanks, Eric. I’ll take a look at this.

Thanks again,
Leo

From: ericw3c@gmail.com [mailto:ericw3c@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Eric Prud'hommeaux
Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2014 6:53 AM
To: Obrst, Leo J.
Cc: public-lod@w3.org; semantic-web
Subject: Re: UML => OWL, SKOS => OWL?


On Aug 15, 2014 7:57 PM, "Obrst, Leo J." <lobrst@mitre.org<mailto:lobrst@mitre.org>> wrote:
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> 1)       Formalizations, methods, implementations, tools that convert/transform UML object models into OWL ontologies in a structure- and semantics-preserving way.

I believe that BRIDG (an ontology for clinical trials) was converted from its normative UML model to OWL following OMG's ODM spec. The resulting OWL is useful but a bit idiomatic. Property names are qualified by the types of the types they go from/to so the look like:

  <domain>.<property><range>

  bridg:Activity.involvedExperimentalUnit

relates a subclass of Activity, e.g. a PerformedSubstanceAdministration (pill, injection) to the recipient. The result is extremely precise and verbose because it has to deal with the fact that a relation name ("involved") connecting two boxes is unrelated to any relation of the same name connecting other boxes. It's up to you to invent subPropertyOf arcs if you want, though it's a pain to write the OWL to downcast my: involved.

See http://bridgmodel.org/ and feel free to ask follow-up questions. I'll try to go into more detail for the list's edification when I'm in front of a real computer.

> 2)      Also, approaches that map SKOS vocabularies (especially codelists) in a reasonable fashion to OWL ontologies. E.g., as value enumerations of ranges of data or object properties.
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> Concerning (1), I’m aware of early UML => DAML work, circa 2001-2. I am also aware of more recent work such as:
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> Zedlitz, Jesper, and Norbert Luttenberger. 2014. Conceptual Modelling in UML and OWL-2. International Journal on Advances in Software, vol 7 no 1 & 2, year 2014, http://www.iariajournals.org/software/. Also: http://www.thinkmind.org/download.php?articleid=soft_v7_n12_2014_15.

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> Zedlitz, J., and N. Luttenberger. 2013. Data types in UML and OWL-2, in SEMAPRO 2013, The Seventh International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing, 2013, pp. 32–35. http://www.thinkmind.org/download.php?articleid=semapro_2013_2_20_50033.

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> Zedlitz, J., J. Jörke, and N. Luttenberger, “From UML to OWL 2,” in Proceedings of Knowledge Technology Week 2011, D. Lukose, A. R. Ahmad, and A. Suliman, Eds., Berlin/Heidelberg, 2012, pp. p. 154–163.
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> Zedlitz, J., and N. Luttenberger. 2012. Transforming Between UML Conceptual Models and OWL 2 Ontologies,” in Proceedings of the Terra Cognita Workshop on Foundations, Technologies and Applications of the Geospatial Web, in conjunction with the 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012), D. Kolas, M. Perry, R. Grütter, and M. Koubarakis, Eds., 2012, pp. p. 15–26. [Online]. Available: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-901/paper2.pdf.

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> Do you know of other such work?
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> Also, do you know of work addressing (2)?
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> Thanks much!
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> Leo
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