Forwarding this e-mail from Eliot Christian of USGS, for potential
synergy with our semantic registry enhancements for v4.
It's regarding use cases for OMG ontology development metamodel (ODM).
Some quick references:
P.8 on query: "Support for query interoperation across multiple,
heterogeneous databases is considered a part of this scenario."
P.10 on lifecycle: Discusses an ontology lifecycle in which "Ontological
information will be included in a standard MOF repository for
management, storage and archiving. This may be to satisfy legal or
operations requirements to maintain version histories.".
P.11 on semantics and search: Discusses "Semantics assisted search of
data stored in databases or content stored on the Web"
Thanks,
Joe
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Subject: Usage scenarios for OMG ontology development metamodel
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 11:44:01 -0500
From: Eliot Christian <>
To:
CC: Rob Atkinson <>,Joseph Busch
<>,Joe Chiusano
<>,Ron Daniel
<>,Michael Gruninger
<>, ,Jim Hendler
<>, Ralph Hodgson <>,Michael
Lang <>, Eric Miller <>,Brand
Niemann <>, Adam Pease
<>,, Raul Valdes-Perez
<>,David Webber <>, Kevin Williams
<>
Please forward to anyone interested in ontology development.
>Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 14:25:29 +1000
>Subject: FYI and comment: Usage scenarios for OMG ontology development
> metamodel
>From: Bob Colomb <>
>To: Eliot Christian <>
>
>Eliot,
>
>The joint working group on the ontology development metamodel extensions to
>UML has developed a set of usage scenarios covering much of the possible
>uses of ontologies and the consequences for the ODM metamodel. We are
>seeking comments.
>
>Regards,
>
>Bob
>
>Dr. Robert M. Colomb
>Reader
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