[Tdwg-tag] UML to RDF?

[Bob Morris]

http://w3.antd.nist.gov/pubs/quirolgico-wise2004.pdf
Slightly special, but explores the issues of mapping UML to SW 
technologies. Predates UML2 which is probably a better fit



    http://www.sandsoft.com/edoc2004/ChangODMDesignMDSW.pdf
Insights about ontology metamodeling from the authors of  the OMG 
proposal http://www.omg.org/docs/ad/05-09-08.pdf I mentioned in an 
earlier post. One point quite consistent with observations Roger, 
Donald, and Steve have made:
    "In addition, ontology development must be accomplished
    within the context of a business need, and should be
    grounded in requirements relevant to a particular software
    development activity, or set of activities, to be of practical
    use in most business settings. That is, the ontologies that an
    enterprise develops must form an integral part of that
    enterprise’s information and application infrastructure."

http://www.sfu.ca/~dgasevic/Tutorials/ISWC2005/
"MDA Standards for Ontology Development" including handouts from the 
tutorial


Phillip C. Dibner wrote:
> Somewhat tangential to Gregor's question, but maybe of interest:
> 
> There are tools available to convert ISO 19109-compliant UML models  
> to GML, which would address WFS applications that use our models.   
> One such can be downloaded from:
> 
> http://www.interactive-instruments.de/ugas/
> 
> ... and for information:
> 
> http://www.interactive-instruments.de/ugas/ShapeChange.pdf
> 
> I don't know of such tools for RDF, but I suspect they exist now or  
> will soon.
> 
> Flip
> 
> 
> On Mar 29, 2006, at 12:33 PM, Gregor Hagedorn wrote:
> 
> 
>>Donald wrote:
>>
>>
>>>In both cases, I would of course recommend that we model our  
>>>objects using a
>>>more neutral language such as UML and then generate the encoding  
>>>models we
>>>actually use.  After that here are the two options I see (not in  
>>>any order
>>>of priority).
>>
>>UML would be absolutely excellent. However do we have tools that  
>>support this?
>>
>>For SDD we failed to communicate in UML, partly because people  
>>wanted example
>>documents that looked like the html they got so used to, and partly  
>>because at
>>some stage the complexity could not be handled by manually  
>>synchronizing two
>>separate forms of expression. However, tools for UML to w3c schema  
>>seem to be
>>rather experimental and not well available. Or perhaps we just did  
>>not find
>>them?
>>
>>(Actually, both TCS and UBIF/SDD use w3c schema in a way that  
>>corresponds to
>>UML static class diagrams (and are built on class definitions). SDD  
>>is built
>>with the assumption that someone wants to create a 1:1 mapping of  
>>JAVA classes,
>>including type derivation, extension, and type-polymorphism.  
>>However, it is
>>clear that w3c-schema is a hodgepodge compromise, and I guess that  
>>makes a
>>general UML/w3c-schema mapping difficult.
>>
>>Is there a good UML editor that exports RDFS/OWL? One that we can  
>>use? One that
>>we can use in discussions between information scientists and  
>>biologists?
>>
>>If we can forget about RDF/S and simply use a UML tools for all  
>>relevant
>>discussions (AND for defining the constraints we consider  
>>necessary), and the
>>product of this discussion can then automatically be turned into  
>>RDF, I would
>>*love RDF*. (Some comments about using text-editors to edit RDF,  
>>however, point
>>me into the opposite direction).
>>
>>Perhaps also schema-driven applications can be built, similar to  
>>what CASTOR is
>>for Java and w3c-xml-schema?
>>
>>Then it really does not matter that RDF/S in my view has a much  
>>steeper
>>learning curve and higher level of abstraction than xml itself -  
>>because it is
>>software that handles it.
>>
>>Gregor----------------------------------------------------------
>>Gregor Hagedorn (G.Hagedorn at bba.de)
>>Institute for Plant Virology, Microbiology, and Biosafety
>>Federal Research Center for Agriculture and Forestry (BBA)
>>Königin-Luise-Str. 19           Tel: +49-30-8304-2220
>>14195 Berlin, Germany           Fax: +49-30-8304-2203
>>
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