Representing the component library into ontology design patterns
Aldo Gangemi, Vinay K. Chaudhri · 2009
Abstract. For Ontology Design Patterns (OP) to be widely adopted by conceptual modelers, we need a critical amount of them, and that amount should be larger for patterns that describe good practices for modeling content (ie, Content Patterns or CP), e.g. about time, space, events, biological entitites, medical cases, legal norms, etc. It is possible and desirable to reuse existing repositories that contain modeling solutions, and to represent them as OPs. This paper analyzes some components from the Component Library (CLIB), proposing some solutions to represent them into OWL2 CPs. Some constructs from CLIB components need the expressivity of rule languages in order to fully represent them, but these extra-features can be separated from the basic ontological content. Additionally, CLIB components are shown to be enrichable with the pattern annotation schema defined for OPs, which also allows a quick upload and publication on ontologydesignpatterns.org. 1