Difference between revisions of "'Ontology Design Patterns':WhatIsAModelingIssue"

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Modeling Issue: A modeling issue is a question or problem that arises during the ontology engineering process. There are many kinds of issues and many ways to solve them. A modeling issue typically involves:

not knowing how to proceed during an ontology engineering exercise
identifying the specific representation requirements
identifying what combinations of language constructs can meet the representation requirements
evaluating the tradeoffs of different possible solutions.

A superb example of this is found in the document: Representing Classes As Property Values on the Semantic Web.

Modeling issue vary in a number of ways.

Generality Modeling issues may be
- highly specific to narrow domains (e.g. protein folding in molecular biology)
- domain independent (e.g. Should instances of classes be modeled as SKOS:Concept).
- somewhere in between, i.e. broadly applicable in one or more fairly general domain. (e.g.

How do I submit a modeling issue?

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 Modeling issue vary in a number of ways.
 * ''Generality'' Modeling issues may be
-**  highly specific to narrow domains (e.g. protein folding in molecular biology)
+** highly specific to narrow domains (''e.g.'' protein folding in molecular biology)
-** , or general across many domains.
+** domain independent (''e.g.'' Should instances of classes be modeled as SKOS:Concept).
-*
+** somewhere in between, ''i.e.'' broadly applicable in one or more fairly general domain. (e.g.