- From: Eric Neumann <ENeumann@BeyondGenomics.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 16:29:00 -0500
- To: <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Oliver, Although I am coming at this with a distinct life sciences bias, a group of us (the Bio-Ontologies Consortium) did evaluate (by feature) a variety of languages for describing ontologies for the life sciences. The results are published in http://www.ai.sri.com/~pkarp/pubs/00-ismb.pdf. In summary, the group found that UML was not as expressive as some of the other alternatives (XOL, OML). Nor was it universally supported by most biological applications. It also seemed to impose a particular point of view that hindered its use by humans (simplicity). Possibly, and object-oriented view is not necessarily the best way to think about the complex, related information found in the life sciences. This is an ongoing topic of discussion at both http://www.i3c.org and http://www.omg.org/lsr. Since then, the Bio-ontologies Consortium has voted to use DAML+OIL as the ontological language of choice for describing such life science items as genomes, proteomes, biochemical pathways, etc. The group is very interested to see where things are headed wrt RDF/S and DAML. Eric > -----Original Message----- > From: oliver fodor [mailto:fodor@itc.it] > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 6:08 AM > To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org > Subject: UML/XMI and semantic web > > > Hi! > > I'm evaluating XML-based technologies for a tool providing > interoperability > on the data level between different systems in the tourism domain. > Naturally the question of building ontologies has came up. > Observing the > research in this area it is still unclear to me whether it is > possible/feasible to use UML as modelling language for > onthologies and then > XMI in order to provide a machine readable form? Please give > me some pros - > contras, considering UML/XMI and let's say OIL based > modelling. I'd also > welcome some related URLs. > > Thanks! > > oliver > ________________________________________ Eric K. Neumann PhD VP Bioinformatics Beyond Genomics 40 Bear Hill Road Waltham, MA tel: 781-434-0222 fax: 781-890-1119 www.beyondgenomics.com ________________________________________
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