TITLE: Achieving Semantic Interoperability and Integration Using RDF and
OWL (01)
ABSTRACT: Semantic interoperability means enabling different agents,
services, and applications to exchange information, data and knowledge,
on and off the Web. To enable semantic interoperability agents,
services, and applications need either to share the same mutually
understood vocabulary or to create correspondences (i.e. mappings)
between their different vocabularies. One of the design goals of RDF
and OWL is to provide the means to specify such mappings. This note
provides guidance on how OWL and RDF can be used to enable semantic
interoperability. (02)
We briefly characterize what we mean by semantic interoperability, and
what the challenges are. We describe some RDF and OWL constructs that
are designed to support semantic interoperability and illustrate them
with examples. We highlight their strengths and limitations. The main
strengths are the ability to express equivalence and other logical
relationships between concepts, properties and individuals in different
ontologies. One main weakness is the lack of support for procedural
functions (e.g. arithmetic, string manipulation) that are needed for
mapping between many real-world ontologies. (03)
Working Draft: http://cmenzel.org/SWBP/SII.html (04)
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Michael Uschold
M&CT, Phantom Works
425 373-2845
michael.f.uschold@xxxxxxxxxx
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-----Original Message-----
From: Brenton, Mike [mailto:brentonm@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 5:47 AM
To: common upper ontology working group
Subject: Re: [cuo-wg] CDSI Draft Paper and Conference Call Wed Dec
20,11:30-12:30 (07)
James,
I provided the draft paper to several of our forward leaning folks here
at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and received a variety of
responses. The most prevalent response being that without a clear
definition of the phrase "interoperability across the enterprise" it is
difficult to understand the overall context of the problem or the
solution. Does interoperability mean actually reaching into databases
"owned" by other organizations, exchanging data through standards based
exchange packets (also call knowledge objects by some), or something
else? What is the enterprise, the whole internet, the federal
government, the intelligence community, law enforcement, etc.?
It would seem that clear statements (multiple) of the different scopes
and contexts for "data interoperability" within and across lines of
business (not necessarily the same as COI's) is fundamental to coming up
with a family of solutions for a family of problems. I have trouble
seeing a one size fits all solution emerging.
Regards,
Mike
Michael A. Brenton
Stone's Throw Technology, LLC
(540) 729-0392 (cell)
(703) 375-6040 (Herndon Office) (08)
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[mailto:cuo-wg-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Schoening, James R
C-E LCMC CIO/G6
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 8:45 AM
To: 'common upper ontology working group'
Subject: [cuo-wg] CDSI Draft Paper and Conference Call Wed Dec
20,11:30-12:30 (09)
Cross Domain Semantic Interoperability WG, (010)
The 2nd conference call of this group is scheduled for next
Wednesday, Dec 20th, 11:30 AM -12:30 PM EST. Join by dialing
(888)622-5357 and entering the code 342803. (011)
Attached is a draft paper, which will be discussed. The paper
attempts to explain, to the layman, that current technology cannot
achieve 'Data Interoperability across the Enterprise.' It concludes
that emerging technology has promise and should be pursued. It makes a
first cut at rating various technologies on a 9-level maturity scale,
which needs further discussion. (012)
Please join the telecon and invite other stakeholders. The
CDSI-WG web site is at http://www.visualknowledge.com/wiki/CDSI. (013)
James R. Schoening
U.S. Army C-E LCMC CIO/G6 Office
Voice: DSN 992-5812 or (732) 532-5812
Fax: DSN 992-7551 or (732) 532-7551
Email: James.Schoening@xxxxxxxxxxx (014)
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