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UML, MOF, MDA, OWL: how they all fit together
The Object Management Group
is well know and has been working for a long time in tools to describe
objects, classes, processes and many other software engineering elements
at a level that tries to abstract from the many OO software languages such
as Java, C++, SmallTalk,... One important specification released by the
OMG is the Meta-Object
Facility. There is just too much here I don't know about to be able to
make any assertions, but I just listened to a very interesting
presentation by Ms.
Elisa Kendall entitled The
Model Driven Semantic Web – Emerging Technologies & Implementation
Strategies [1] where she presents some of her work and looks into
quite some detail into the relation between the Semantic Web and these
more established technologies of UML, MOF, Common Logic, etc which are
meant to bring us towards the Model Driven Architecture folks have been
age. It turns out that in a recent OMG document Ontology
definition metamodel which bears her name she was able to relate these
two schools of thought very nicely. The talk gives a lot more detail about
how these things fit together than I can summarise here. But it is just
another very strong confirmation of my thoughts:
- that one can represent OWL ontologies in UML,
- that there should be a clear mapping between OWL or RDF ontologies and Java (which the annotation framework I propose makes crystal clear)
- a good ontology is very important in database management and data mining
- the importance of declarative rules (which I have not mentioned yet)
[1] You can find the slides of the talk as well as a recording of the presentation on the ontolog.cim3.net wiki.
Posted at 09:38PM Sep 11, 2005 [permalink/trackback] by Henry Story in SemWeb | Comments[1]
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