[wg11-owl] Goal of the review

[Radack, Gerald]

David:

The actual 15926-4 RDL part consists mainly of a taxonomy.  So I think
that a "general purpose, universal semantic repository" is more of a
goal than a reality at this point, at least with regard to the published
standard.

What about OWL as a replacement for EXPRESS as the SC4 information
modeling language?  I'm not in favor of using pure OWL as a modeling
language, but it should be discussed.  Perhaps a UML stereoptype for SC4
(requirements currently captured in EXPRESS) with a mapping to OWL would
be more useful.

Maybe you intended that to be covered by 3, but I do not think that all
of our information models are "domains-specific ontologies".

Regards
Gerry

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As a start, there are multiple ways in which OWL might be used by SC4.
As
OWL is built on RDFS and RDF, it may also be appropriate to consider
some
use of those languages as well.

Seems like there are at least four uses:

1 - As a language for defining general purpose, universal semantic
repositories similar to what 15926 provides for the Oil and Gas
industry.

2 - As a language for defining taxonomies to be used with the
External_class
modules in STEP, etc.

3 - As a modeling language for domain-specific ontologies (i.e. schemas)
as
done in STEP today, Mandate, etc.

4 - As an implementation language with the concepts of Class, Property
and
Individual, standard XML and other encodings, industry query languages,
and
industry APIs.

1, 3 and maybe some cases of 4 enable the use of reasoners, etc. too.

Anyone think of any other uses?

To my knowledge, OWL is not "deployed" anywhere in SC4. It is being used
in
OASIS standardiziation for use 2 with AP239.

DP

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Hi all, 

Dave> "SC 4 requests WG11 to conduct a review of the deployment of OWL 
Dave> technology in SC 4, with contributions from the other WGs, and 
Dave> make recommendations for its consistent use."

Based on the original SC4 resolution, I would expect the end result of
these
discussions to be a brief WG11 white paper summarizing the current
usages
and your feelings on where things should go.  Obviously, Spain is 
a bit close, but hopefully you can have something by the next meeting.

Cheers, 
						- Dave


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