RE: [soa-rm] [For Issue #525] RE: [soa-rm] Groups - Proposed SOA-RM Relationship Names (SOA-RM Relationships Names.xls) uploaded

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

Hi Rex,

I can clarify: Our adding of relationship names would not be to support
OWL; rather, it would be (IMO) consistent with other reference models
(including the DRM). The desire to create an OWL implementation
highlighted the need for them. So we shouldn't think OWL when we discuss
them; we should think relationships between concepts.

Thanks,
Joe 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Rex Brooks [mailto:rexb@starbourne.com] 
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 1:03 PM
To: Chiusano Joseph; soa-rm@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [soa-rm] [For Issue #525] RE: [soa-rm] Groups - Proposed
SOA-RM Relationship Names (SOA-RM Relationships Names.xls) uploaded

Yup,

If we are going to provide relationship names to accommodate OWL, we
need to be specific about which version of OWL we want to support or CAN
support, given the abstract nature of the Reference Model.

I would be happy with OWL DL, less happy with OWL Lite, and opposed to
OWL Full. Going into the reasons is something we should take up in the
f2f, because it is too lengthy for an email. However, I would prefer to
put this on hold for a v2.0 which I suspect is almost unavoidable,
though one hoped it would not be given sufficient abstraction.

That said, I would select relationship names directly from the realm of
RDF in general and RDF Schema in particular and, for me, OWL DL and not
make up any new ones and I would start with extremely basic, very
abstract, relationships and not use any terms that are open to
interpretation. In other words, I would try to start with compliance
with first-order logic. Going beyond basic classes and properties to
subClassOf and subPropertyOf is about as far as I would go. Otherwise we
open the door to a purely endless exercise in futility. It would take a
lot of work and I don't think we have time for it in this version.

This is probably not a good idea.

I would prefer to see it be a separate specification, with its own set
of requirements starting with mereology from general to specific, where
you define things in the isPartOf relationship not the consistsOf
relationship.  The difference is that there are some accepted rules for
mereology, and it works with formal logic. If we are going to
accommodate OWL now we need to make sure we are not setting ourselves up
for a bunch of logical contradictions by going full steam ahead before
looking at the landscape and figuring out what kind of roadmap we need.

I think the spreadsheet is a good way to get concepts out where you can
look at them and pick away at them. I just don't think this is likely to
get well baked enough to include in this round, and perhaps ought to be
its own specification, a SOA ontology based on the RM. 
That would give us plenty of time to noodle and boil this down to
workability.

Regards,
Rex



At 11:05 AM -0400 5/1/06, Chiusano Joseph wrote:
>I've updated the subject for this thread to reflect the Issue #. Any 
>thoughts on the proposed relationship names?
>
>Joe
>
>Joseph Chiusano
>Associate
>Booz Allen Hamilton
>
>700 13th St. NW, Suite 1100
>Washington, DC 20005
>O: 202-508-6514
>C: 202-251-0731
>Visit us online@ http://www.boozallen.com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: chiusano_joseph@bah.com [mailto:chiusano_joseph@bah.com]
>Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 8:52 PM
>To: soa-rm@lists.oasis-open.org
>Subject: [soa-rm] Groups - Proposed SOA-RM Relationship Names (SOA-RM 
>Relationships Names.xls) uploaded
>
>The document named Proposed SOA-RM Relationship Names (SOA-RM 
>Relationships
>Names.xls) has been submitted by Mr. Joseph Chiusano to the OASIS SOA 
>Reference Model TC document repository.
>
>Document Description:
>This is related to issue #525, which described "the potential creation 
>of an OWL ontology for SOA-RM to be considered as an upper ontology for

>different architectures guided by SOA-RM, in order to provide semantic 
>interoperability between these architectures and their implementations 
>(instances), once they are SOA-RM based.". The submitter expressed how 
>the lack of relationship names in our spec inhibited this.
>
>I have worked with the submitter and Ken Laskey to create this 
>spreadsheet of proposed relationship names for all figures that contain

>directed relationships. Please review and comment; you may wish to use 
>the spreadsheet row # when referring to specific relationships. We have

>provided 2 sets of proposed names for each relationship (except the 
>final
>one) - one primary, and one alternate.
>
>Please also keep in mind that some of the proposed relationship names 
>may bring with them minor alterations in the relationships themselves.
>
>Thanks,
>Joe
>
>View Document Details:
>http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/soa-rm/document.php?docume
>n
>t_id=17877
>
>Download Document:
>http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/soa-rm/download.php/17877/
>S
>OA-RM%20Relationships%20Names.xls
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