Odp: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: | ''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 | * not knowing how to proceed during an ontology engineering exercise | ||
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The goal is for all modeling issues to reach a stage of being very clearly defined with one or more solutions implemented and explained. Figures are also very helpful. | The goal is for all modeling issues to reach a stage of being very clearly defined with one or more solutions implemented and explained. Figures are also very helpful. | ||
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+ | * [[Community:Main| View or Contribute to modeling issues already posted]] | ||
+ | * [[Submissions:HowDoISubmitAModelllingIssue| How do I Post or Contribute to a modeling issue?]] | ||
+ | * [[Community:PostModelingIssue| Post a modeling issue now.]] | ||
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Revision as of 07:07, 27 February 2010
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.
Two key ways that modeling issues vary are:
- Domain Specificity: 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 domains.
- How well defined: Modeling issues may be
- very clearly defined, with competency questions and proposed solution options with tradeoffs already analyzed
- very rough early thoughts from the person submitting.
- somewhere in between.
The goal is for all modeling issues to reach a stage of being very clearly defined with one or more solutions implemented and explained. Figures are also very helpful.