[Fwd: Re: [regrep-semantic] Re: Deploying an OWL ontology via an Web Servicesinterface]

["Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@bah.com>]

Forwarding this very positive response back to our subcommittee.
According to the poster, our work is "exactly what I have been looking
for".

Joe

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [regrep-semantic] Re: Deploying an OWL ontology via an Web
Servicesinterface
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 00:02:36 +1000
From: Rob Atkinson <rob@socialchange.net.au>
To: Chiusano Joseph <chiusano_joseph@bah.com>
CC: public-sws-ig@w3.org, carlmattocks@checkmi.com,Simon Cox
<simon.cox@csiro.au>,Keiran Millard <k.millard@hrwallingford.co.uk>
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Many thanks - I think this is exactly what I have been looking for - not 
exactly an answer but something to include in the roadmaps I am working
on!

In fact, my use case is very much one based on reconciling ebRIM and ISO 
19000 standards for modelling geographical features, so this path is 
promising. I was thinking of OWL as a view into relationships managed 
within ebRIM data models as a starting point, and loading an ontology 
into ebRIM so I could then manage the terms!

Thanks to all those who responded with details of their current 
solutions - I guess this discussion would have been of broad interest.

I'll spend a bit more time reading and thinking through then respond 
directly.


Regards
Rob Atkinson

Chiusano Joseph wrote:

>Forwarding on behalf of Carl Mattocks, Co-Chair of OASIS/ebXML Registry
>SCM subcommittee.
>
>Kind Regards,
>Joe Chiusano
>Booz | Allen | Hamilton
>Strategy and Technology Consultants to the World
>
>Carl Mattocks wrote:
> 
>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
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>><quote who="Chiusano Joseph">
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>>>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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>>Carl Mattocks
>>
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>>co-Chair OASIS Business Centric Methodology TC
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