- From: Enrico Franconi <franconi@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 12:49:58 +0100
- To: RDF Logic <www-rdf-logic@w3.org>
On August 9, Hart, Lewis writes: > We have implemented one-to-many mapping between two ontologies by > using a third ontology, an Articulation [1]. It uses a Match class > with multi-valued subject and objects, for example: > > <art:Match rdf:ID='M1'> > <subject rdf:reference = &o1;name> > <object rdf:reference = &o2;first_name> > <object rdf:reference = &o2;last_name> > </art:Match> > > A separate articulation ontology is used to provide a stand alone > mapping that avoids adding facts to either source ontology. > > There is a prototype matching engine on our web site at [2]. It > currently uses DAML+OIL, but our plan is to convert it to OWL when > the standard begins to be stable. And what's the purpose of the prototype? What kind of reasoning does it provide? cheers -- e. Enrico Franconi - franconi@inf.unibz.it Free University of Bozen-Bolzano - http://www.inf.unibz.it/~franconi/ Faculty of Computer Science - Phone: (+39) 0471-315-642 I-39100 Bozen-Bolzano BZ, Italy - Fax: (+39) 0471-315-649
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