A Method for Automatically Generating Schema Diagrams for OWL Ontologies

Shimizu, Cogan; Eberhart, Aaron; Karima, Nazifa; Hirt, Quinn; Krisnadhi, Adila; Hitzler, Pascal

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-21395-4_11

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“…This paper significantly extends [51] and summarizes several other workshop and conference papers: [50,53], and [52].…”

Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 61%

“…Datatypes would be the concrete datatypes allowed in OWL. This type of schema diagram underlies a study on automatic schema diagram creation from OWL files [50].…”

Section: Schema Diagramsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…one module A combined schema diagram, see Fig. 5 for an example, can be produced from the diagrams for the individual modules, In our experience, it is best to focus on understandability of the diagram [32,50]. The following guidelines should be applied with caution -exceptions at the right places may sometimes be helpful.…”

Section: Create Ontology Schema Diagram From the Module Schema Diagra...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Modular ontology modeling

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Hitzler

2023

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Reusing ontologies for new purposes, or adapting them to new use-cases, is frequently difficult. In our experiences, we have found this to be the case for several reasons: (i) differing representational granularity in ontologies and in use-cases, (ii) lacking conceptual clarity in potentially reusable ontologies, (iii) lack and difficulty of adherence to good modeling principles, and (iv) a lack of reuse emphasis and process support available in ontology engineering tooling. In order to address these concerns, we have developed the Modular Ontology Modeling (MOMo) methodology, and its supporting tooling infrastructure, CoModIDE (the Comprehensive Modular Ontology IDE – “commodity”). MOMo builds on the established eXtreme Design methodology, and like it emphasizes modular development and design pattern reuse; but crucially adds the extensive use of graphical schema diagrams, and tooling that support them, as vehicles for knowledge elicitation from experts. In this paper, we present the MOMo workflow in detail, and describe several useful resources for executing it. In particular, we provide a thorough and rigorous evaluation of CoModIDE in its role of supporting the MOMo methodology’s graphical modeling paradigm. We find that CoModIDE significantly improves approachability of such a paradigm, and that it displays a high usability.

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“…This paper significantly extends [51] and summarizes several other workshop and conference papers: [50,53], and [52].…”

Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 61%

“…Datatypes would be the concrete datatypes allowed in OWL. This type of schema diagram underlies a study on automatic schema diagram creation from OWL files [50].…”

Section: Schema Diagramsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Create Ontology Schema Diagram From the Module Schema Diagra...mentioning

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Hitzler

2023

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“…The remaining three components (Set of Example SPARQL Queries, Examples of Available Datasets for Population, and Constraints Using ShEx 10 ) are being considered for future versions of MODL. 11 The schema diagrams for our documentation were manually created using the algorithm found in [13,21]. We elected to use a simplified visual syntax that conveyed relations between concepts and also contains visual cues for identifying concepts that should be used as 'hooks' into the ODP.…”

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MODL: A Modular Ontology Design Library

Shimizu,

Hirt,

Hitzler

2019

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Pattern-based, modular ontologies have several beneficial properties that lend themselves to FAIR data practices, especially as it pertains to Interoperability and Reusability. However, developing such ontologies has a high upfront cost, e.g. reusing a pattern is predicated upon being aware of its existence in the first place. Thus, to help overcome these barriers, we have developed MODL: a modular ontology design library. MODL is a curated collection of well-documented ontology design patterns, drawn from a wide variety of interdisciplinary use-cases. In this paper we present MODL as a resource, discuss its use, and provide some examples of its contents.

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“…Instead, the idea is to communicate that there is some relation between the two concepts, and the more exact nature of the relation is deferred to the formal axiomatization which is expressed in OWL or some other suitable logic [9]. For additional reading on the meaning behind schema diagram edges, see [14,2]. For this paper, we have modified the traditional syntax used in the MOMo [15] methodology to better communicate the important conceptual components when modeling with Wikibase, while acknowledging the underlying complexity of what Wikibase automatically generates during RDF serialization.…”

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Ontology Design Facilitating Wikibase Integration -- and a Worked Example for Historical Data

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Eells²,

Gonzalez³

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Wikibase -which is the software underlying Wikidata -is a powerful platform for knowledge graph creation and management. However, it has been developed with a crowd-sourced knowledge graph creation scenario in mind, which in particular means that it has not been designed for use case scenarios in which a tightly controlled high-quality schema, in the form of an ontology, is to be imposed, and indeed, independently developed ontologies do not necessarily map seamlessly to the Wikibase approach. In this paper, we provide the key ingredients needed in order to combine traditional ontology modeling with use of the Wikibase platform, namely a set of axiom patterns that bridge the paradigm gap, together with usage instructions and a worked example for historical data.

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A Method for Automatically Generating Schema Diagrams for OWL Ontologies

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Modular ontology modeling

Modular ontology modeling

MODL: A Modular Ontology Design Library

Ontology Design Facilitating Wikibase Integration -- and a Worked Example for Historical Data

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