Re: [regrep-semantic] Re: Deploying an OWL ontology via an Web Services interface

["Carl Mattocks" <carlmattocks@checkmi.com>]

Rob :

Yes - the ebXML Registry Semantic Content Management are actively working
to enable community managed ontologies. If you would like to provide
feedback on the 'use cases' we have developed- please let me know.

regards
carl

<quote who="Chiusano Joseph">
> I would like to call your attention to the work that is currently being
> done in the OASIS/ebXML Registry SCM (Semantic Content Management)
> subcommittee [1]. A link to the group's charter is also listed in [1].
>
> I've copied the SCM listserv in case any of the members that are on this
> list would like to provide more information.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Joe Chiusano
> Booz | Allen | Hamilton
> Strategy and Technology Consultants to the World
>
> [1]
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/sc_home.php?wg_abbrev=regrep-semantic
>
> Rob Atkinson wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Apologies if there is an obvious answer to this, but I havent been able
>> to locate it via browsing, searching or asking yet: is there a working
>> group, standard, best practice or even published proprietary API for
>> deploying an ontology via Web Services.
>>
>> I am interested in the case of a community managed ontology, where
>> working groups can be delegated to maintain parts of the ontology, all
>> via a single web accessible repository. Applications would be able to
>> search this repository as required.
>>
>> I would like the ability to:
>> 1) insert, update or delete classes
>> 2) find references that directly depend on a class
>> 3) query
>> 4) ideally, insert an entire OWL ontology including relationships to
>> pre-existing classes...
>> 5) ... which implies having a stable URI to reference items within the
>> deployed ontology in the first place
>>
>> Maybe there is no API that makes sense, and its always only possible to
>> think about publishing a single file, and using xlink to try to glue it
>> all together - in which case there should be some serious thought
>> somewhere about the query mechanisms you would use to perform typical
>> ontology traversals. I'd be happy with a registry-friendly model where
>> the transactions can be defined to be honest.
>>
>> Can anyone point me to where such deployment issues are being worked
>> out?
>>
>> Regards
>> Rob Atkinson
>
> --
> Kind Regards,
> Joseph Chiusano
> Associate
> Booz | Allen | Hamilton
>


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