Re: Ontology Mapping

Hi Hector,

If you look at the OWL Requirements document [1], you'll see that one of
the design goals is "3.3 Ontology Interoperability." Currently, there
are plans for OWL to support the same kind of ontology mapping as is
present in DAML+OIL, i.e. class and property equivalence, subclass,
subproperty, and anything that can be expressed with class descriptions
(e.g., boolean combinations, property restrictions, etc.).

The requirements document also lists a number of "objectives," which are
features that would be nice to have but may not be supported in the
language. Among this list are "O11. String Manipulation" (which would
allow the name mapping you describe), "O12. Aggregation and grouping,"
and "O13. Procedural attachment." Most of the working group feels that
these features would make the language too complex so it is unlike that
they will make it into version 1.0.

Jeff

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/webont-req/

Hector Ceballos wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering if OWL will support mapping between ontologies. I refer not
> just to mapping one to one, but one to many. For example, <o1:name> and its
> equivalence (or mapping) to <o2:first_name> + <o2:last_name>.
> 
> Cheers
> Hector G. Ceballos

Received on Friday, 9 August 2002 11:10:56 UTC