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Subject: Re: [regrep-semantic] ebXML Registry Profile for OWL
Farrukh wrote: >From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profile > > In standardization, a profile consists of an agreed-upon subset and > interpretation of a specification. ... This is indeed *one* use of the word "profile" in some standards efforts. I was once an OSI person (long ago, but not at all far away), so I am familiar with this use. However, your definition >My definition is that a profile is: "a normative specification that defines >a standard way to extend or restrict a base specification that is the >target of the profile." isn't consistent with the OSI use because it allows a profile to extend rather than merely subset a spec. I think I see where this comes from though: ebRIM has its own extensibility mechanism, and I believe you wish to document a particular usage of that (for OWL) in the work you have proposed. Is that correct? >>The other question I have is about the UML that describes the language >>supported by the profile (at least such a thing was in the Web Services >>profile provided as an example). > >What are you refering to here. Can you be more specific please. > >> This is essentially creating a metamodel >> of the target language depicted in UML. I can be more specific. Illustration 1:WSDL Information Model from the WSDL profile is an example of what I mean. If a similar model were included in the OWL profile, I would want it to be consistent with the metamodel for OWL in chapter 12 of the Ontology Definition Metamodel (see http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?ad/05-09-08.pdf).
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