some remarks on VOEvent

[Ed Shaya]

And if one wants to autoconvert UML to OWL there is this tool at

http://afrodita.rcub.bg.ac.yu/~gasevic/projects/UMLtoOWL/


      UMLtoOWL: Converter from UML to OWL

 


      General information

The UMLtoOWL tool converts extended Ontology UML Profile (OUP) models in 
XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) format to The Web Ontology Language (OWL) 
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-owl-ref-20040210> ontologies. The tool is 
implemented by using eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation 
(XSLT). With UMLtoOWL we do not need to modify the existing UML tools. A 
UML tool can export an XMI document that an XSLT processor (e.g. Xalan 
Java 2 <http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/index.html>) can use as input. An 
OWL document is produced as the output, and this format can be imported 
into a tool specialized for ontology development (e.g. Protégé 
<http://protege.stanford.edu/>) where it can be further refined.

This work is a part of the Good Old AI <http://goodoldai.org.yu/> 
research effort to develop an MDA based ontology infrastructure 
<http://www.comsis.fon.bg.ac.yu/ComSISpdf/Volume01/Papers/DraganDjuric.pdf>.

Ed




Bernard Vatant wrote:

>.... to follow-up with my previous message ...
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>Roy Williams wrote :
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>>More properly we should *not* say VOEvent represents an astrophysical
>>event, but rather it represents an *observation* of an event. Each
>>observation is assigned an ID.
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>Agreed, iff "an *observation* of an event" is not taken in a naive realistic view of the
>world, a la ...
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>1. There was an event to observe (outthere, independently of mine, or any other,
>observation)
>2. I was there, lucky man/woman to catch it : see my data.
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>.... but puts the observation first, and then the event definition, a la :
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>1. I happened to capture this pack of data.
>2. They seem to make together enough sense, according to my/our current knowledge - or
>still better, to our *lack* of knowledge - to be encapsulated inside an "event box".
>3. My first interpretation is bla bla ...
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>Bernard
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