Changes between Version 7 and Version 8 of AlignmentOntology

Timestamp:

07/04/06 11:15:49 (19 years ago)

Author:

endres

Comment:

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AlignmentOntology

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 == Integration/Alignment with other alignment ontologies ==
 
+=== Lockheed Martin Alignment ===
 An alignment between our AlignmentOntology and the [http://www.atl.lmco.com/projects/ontology/ Lockheed Martin ATL] [http://www.atl.lmco.com/projects/ontology/ontologies/core/alignment/Alignment.owl alignment specification] is given by the file [repos:trunk/PhaseLibs/AlignmentOntology/LMCOAlignment.rdf LMCOAlignment.rdf]. This file specifies the alignment using both schemes at the same time.
 
+=== SKOS Mapping ===
+The [http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/mapping/spec/ SKOS Mapping Vocabulary] defines mappings between topic maps. However, their scheme is not semantically equivalent to our alignment concept, since they use a set theory based approach on the documents attached to their concepts. Thus, the transformation of a SKOS mapping into a PhaseLibs alignment or vice versa is semantically questionable.
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+In order to transform a set of simple (one-to-many) SKOS mappings you can do the following:
+ * the various degrees of matches can be mapped to the confidence property 
+ * flat AND bag constructs can be transformed to refer instead to an artificial subclasse of the given class conjunction.  
+ * flat OR bag constructs can be expressed by a number of Superordination/Subsumption relations.
+ * NOT constructs can be expressed by a number of Distinctions.
 
 == Ontology Description ==