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| + | |Schema Re-engineering Ontology Design Patterns (Schema Re-engineering OPs) | ||
| + | |Schema reengineering patterns are rules for transforming from a model in one formalism to another. | ||
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| + | == Description == | ||
| + | Schema reengineering patterns are rules for transforming, e.g. a non-OWL DL | ||
| + | metamodel into an OWL DL ontology. For example, consider the use of SKOS | ||
| + | for Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) reengineering to a knowledge | ||
| + | base (an OWL ABox), based-on the SKOS TBox. Transformation Logical OPs | ||
| + | are a kind of schema reengineering patterns. In principle, all modeling problems can be represented as higher-order logical expressions, and if we have to | ||
| + | represent them e.g. in OWL DL, we implicitly apply a schema reengineering | ||
| + | pattern in order to stay within the expressivity of OWL DL. However, we also | ||
| + | (pragmatically) distinguish between transformation and schema reengineering | ||
| + | patterns because of the di�fferent intention of the designer. In the �first case, | ||
| + | the designer wants to directly represent a modeling solution in a certain representation formalism, e.g. OWL DL, while in the second case the designer | ||
| + | wants to reengineer, e.g. an existing non-OWL DL model into an OWL DL | ||
| + | ontology. | ||
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Schema reengineering patterns are rules for transforming, e.g. a non-OWL DL metamodel into an OWL DL ontology. For example, consider the use of SKOS for Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) reengineering to a knowledge base (an OWL ABox), based-on the SKOS TBox. Transformation Logical OPs are a kind of schema reengineering patterns. In principle, all modeling problems can be represented as higher-order logical expressions, and if we have to represent them e.g. in OWL DL, we implicitly apply a schema reengineering pattern in order to stay within the expressivity of OWL DL. However, we also (pragmatically) distinguish between transformation and schema reengineering patterns because of the di�fferent intention of the designer. In the �first case, the designer wants to directly represent a modeling solution in a certain representation formalism, e.g. OWL DL, while in the second case the designer wants to reengineer, e.g. an existing non-OWL DL model into an OWL DL ontology.
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