Revision as of 06:56, 20 January 2010

AcademicRoles

Title: Academic People and their Roles

Description: I need to represent people of the academic staff. Each person can play different roles in different contexts.

About

This new pattern imports the objectrole pattern and adds a few things. We need to represent an agent that is playing a role in a given context. This would be most natural to represent as a ternary relation, but for OWL we reify this as a Class called RolePlay (RoleInContext would also be a good name). RolePlay has three properties:

1. Context (e.g. the NEON project)
2. Player - the Agent playing the role (e.g. Enrico)
3. Role - the role being played) (e.g. Coordinator)

We also add some new classes and instances:

• Agent and a subclase Person with one instance, Enrico
• AcademicRole with two instances: Coordinator and Professor

NB: probably this pattern should be renamed to be something like 'RoleInContext' and then specialized for academic roles in context.

<?xml version="1.0"?> <rdf:RDF

   xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
   xmlns="http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/cp/owl/academicrole.owl#"
   xmlns:objectrole="http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/cp/owl/objectrole.owl#"
   xmlns:agentrole="http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/cp/owl/agentrole.owl#"
   xmlns:owl="http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#"
   xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#"
   xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#"
 xml:base="http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/cp/owl/academicrole.owl">
 <owl:Ontology rdf:about="">
   <owl:versionInfo rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string"
   >Created with TopBraid Composer</owl:versionInfo>
   <owl:imports rdf:resource="http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/cp/owl/agentrole.owl"/>
 </owl:Ontology>
 <owl:Class rdf:ID="Person">
   <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/cp/owl/agentrole.owl#Agent"/>
 </owl:Class>
 <owl:Class rdf:ID="AcademicRolePlay">
   <rdfs:subClassOf>
     <owl:Class rdf:ID="RolePlay"/>
   </rdfs:subClassOf>
 </owl:Class>
 <owl:Class rdf:ID="AcademicRole">
   <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/cp/owl/objectrole.owl#Role"/>
 </owl:Class>
 <owl:Class rdf:about="#RolePlay">
   <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/cp/owl/objectrole.owl#Object"/>
 </owl:Class>
 <owl:Class rdf:ID="Project">
   <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/cp/owl/objectrole.owl#Object"/>
 </owl:Class>
 <owl:ObjectProperty rdf:ID="rolePlayAgent">
   <rdfs:domain rdf:resource="#RolePlay"/>
 </owl:ObjectProperty>
 <owl:ObjectProperty rdf:ID="rolePlayRole">
   <rdfs:domain rdf:resource="#RolePlay"/>
   <rdfs:range rdf:resource="http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/cp/owl/objectrole.owl#Role"/>
 </owl:ObjectProperty>
 <owl:ObjectProperty rdf:ID="rolePlayContext">
   <rdfs:domain rdf:resource="#RolePlay"/>
   <rdfs:range rdf:resource="http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/cp/owl/objectrole.owl#Object"/>
 </owl:ObjectProperty>
 <AcademicRole rdf:ID="Professor"/>
 <AcademicRolePlay rdf:ID="EnricoNEON">
   <rolePlayAgent>
     <Person rdf:ID="Enrico"/>
   </rolePlayAgent>
   <rolePlayContext>
     <Project rdf:ID="NEON"/>
   </rolePlayContext>
   <rolePlayRole>
     <AcademicRole rdf:ID="Coordinator"/>
   </rolePlayRole>
 </AcademicRolePlay>

</rdf:RDF>