Title |
Proposed actions are no actions: re-modeling an ontology design pattern with a realist top-level ontology
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Published in |
Journal of Biomedical Semantics, September 2012
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DOI | 10.1186/2041-1480-3-s2-s2 |
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Authors |
Djamila Seddig-Raufie, Ludger Jansen, Daniel Schober, Martin Boeker, Niels Grewe, Stefan Schulz |
Abstract |
Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs) are representational artifacts devised to offer solutions for recurring ontology design problems. They promise to enhance the ontology building process in terms of flexibility, re-usability and expansion, and to make the result of ontology engineering more predictable. In this paper, we analyze ODP repositories and investigate their relation with upper-level ontologies. In particular, we compare the BioTop upper ontology to the Action ODP from the NeOn an ODP repository. In view of the differences in the respective approaches, we investigate whether the Action ODP can be embedded into BioTop. We demonstrate that this requires re-interpreting the meaning of classes of the NeOn Action ODP in the light of the precepts of realist ontologies. |
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