Bridging the gap between the model-driven architecture and ontology engineering

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dc.contributor.author	Cranefield, Stephen	en_NZ
dc.contributor.author	Pan, Jin	en_NZ
dc.date.copyright	2007-07	en_NZ
dc.identifier.citation	Cranefield, S., & Pan, J. (2007). Bridging the gap between the model-driven architecture and ontology engineering. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 65(7), 595–609. doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2007.03.001	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10523/1260
dc.description	This is the accepted manuscript of the paper (i.e., draft post-refereeing but prior to final editing). Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. The definitive version is available from the publisher's web site as linked above.	en_NZ
dc.description.abstract	Software engineers have many robust commercial tools available to them for creating and manipulating models. Due to the widespread adoption of the Object Management Group (OMG) standards for metamodel definition, model serialisation and programmatic access to models, many of these tools are interoperable. Currently this is not the case for ontology engineering tools. This paper discusses the potential benefits of making the OMG’s Model Driven Architecture (MDA) technology applicable to ontology engineering, and in particular, describes a technique for converting ontologies serialised using the XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) format to an equivalent representation using the Resource Description Framework (RDF), without any loss of information. The resulting models can then be analysed and transformed using existing RDF tools. The technique is applicable to any ontology modelling language that has its abstract syntax defined using the OMG’s Meta Object Facility (MOF) model. This research helps to bridge the gap between the MDA and ontology engineering by providing a technique based on the familiar RDF language for defining transformations between other types of model (such as UML) and ontologies, between different ontology modelling languages, or to modify ontologies without changing the language.	en_NZ
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.publisher	University of Otago	en_NZ
dc.relation.ispartof	International Journal of Human-Computer Studies	en_NZ
dc.relation.replaces	853	en_NZ
dc.subject	Model-driven Architecture (MDA)	en_NZ
dc.subject	ontologies	en_NZ
dc.subject	MOF	en_NZ
dc.subject	JMI	en_NZ
dc.subject	RDF	en_NZ
dc.subject	Jena	en_NZ
dc.subject	NetBeans MDR	en_NZ
dc.subject	ODM	en_NZ
dc.subject.lcsh	QA76 Computer software	en_NZ
dc.title	Bridging the gap between the model-driven architecture and ontology engineering	en_NZ
dc.type	Journal Article	en_NZ
dc.description.version	Published	en_NZ
otago.bitstream.pages	19	en_NZ
otago.date.accession	2007-03-19	en_NZ
otago.school	Information Science	en_NZ
otago.relation.issue	7	en_NZ
otago.relation.pages	595-609	en_NZ
otago.relation.volume	65	en_NZ
dc.identifier.doi	10.1016/j.ijhcs.2007.03.001	en_NZ
otago.openaccess	Open
otago.place.publication	Dunedin, New Zealand	en_NZ
dc.identifier.eprints	558	en_NZ
dc.description.refereed	Peer Reviewed	en_NZ
otago.school.eprints	Software Engineering & Collaborative Modelling Laboratory	en_NZ
otago.school.eprints	Information Science	en_NZ
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