In view of our discussion regarding a standard
for external taxonomies (item 5.1 in our agenda) if you have the chance you may
wish to have a look at the early work of some Carnegie-Mellon researchers
(especially page 8): http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~softagents/papers/Essw.pdf I have not met Dr. Sycara yet, but her
work may be very useful to us. I still don't have a good grasp of what they
are doing, and I am not sure I fully agree with this complex approach, but it
appears to me that their work is a particular example of what could be done by
mapping external taxonomies into UDDI representations. Obviously the above
example was an undertaking focussing on a specific external system, and on
establishing its ability to map into the UDDI spec as it was at its early
stages of development. DAML is also now evolving into OWL. We will therefore
need to look into the following: 1. Find out how UDDI v2 and v3 relate to OWL
based on the above mapping model and similar models 2. Extend this
examination beyond DAML/OWL to Topic Maps (After looking at the very useful
information Max has sent out to us, I feel that Topic Maps are far more
promising) 3. Try to find what functionality we can incorporate in UDDI v4 in
order to make this kind of mapping better and more flexible
--Demetrios
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