On Using Conceptual Data Modeling for Ontology Engineering
@article{Jarrar2003OnUC, title={On Using Conceptual Data Modeling for Ontology Engineering}, author={Mustafa Jarrar and Jan Demey and Robert Meersman}, journal={J. Data Semant.}, year={2003}, volume={1}, pages={185-207} }
This paper tackles two main disparities between conceptual data schemes and ontologies, which should be taken into account when (re)using conceptual data modeling techniques for building ontologies. Firstly, conceptual schemes are intended to be used during design phases and not at the run-time of applications, while ontologies are typically used and accessed at run-time. To handle this first difference, we define a conceptual markup language (ORM-ML) that allows to represent ORM conceptual…
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