some remarks on VOEvent

[Ed Shaya]

There is a plugin for Protege to go the other direction, OWL to UML (XMI 
1.4), see
http://protege.stanford.edu/plugins/uml/

But also see the caveats:
http://protege.stanford.edu/plugins/uml/mapping.html

Ed

Tony Linde wrote:

>Ooohhh!!  Toys!!  Finally something *I* can understand :)
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>Now, anyone got an ontology-friendly UML tool?
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-semantics at eso.org 
>>[mailto:owner-semantics at eso.org] On Behalf Of Ed Shaya
>>Sent: 06 June 2005 17:06
>>To: semantics at ivoa.net
>>Subject: Re: some remarks on VOEvent
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>>And if one wants to autoconvert UML to OWL there is this tool at
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>>http://afrodita.rcub.bg.ac.yu/~gasevic/projects/UMLtoOWL/
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>>      UMLtoOWL: Converter from UML to OWL
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>>      General information
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>>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.
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>>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/Drag
>>anDjuric.pdf>.
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>>Ed
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>>Bernard Vatant wrote:
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>>>.... 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 
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>>astrophysical 
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>>>>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 
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>>mine, or 
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>>>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 
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>>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 
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>>my/our current 
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>>>knowledge - or still better, to our *lack* of knowledge - to 
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>>be encapsulated inside an "event box".
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>>>3. My first interpretation is bla bla ...
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>>>Bernard
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>>>Bernard Vatant
>>>Senior Consultant
>>>Knowledge Engineering
>>>bernard.vatant at mondeca.com
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>>>"Making Sense of Content" :  http://www.mondeca.com "Everything is a 
>>>Subject" :  http://universimmedia.blogspot.com
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