Generic Ontology Design Patterns at Work
This work addresses the need for more flexible and reusable ontology components in semantic web and knowledge representation domains, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing DOL frameworks.
The paper tackles the problem of creating reusable ontology design patterns by introducing Generic Ontology Design Patterns (GODPs) in Generic DOL, an extension of the Distributed Ontology, Model and Specification Language, and demonstrates their potential using the Role design pattern as an example.
Generic Ontology Design Patterns, GODPs, are defined in Generic DOL, an extension of DOL, the Distributed Ontology, Model and Specification Language, and implemented using Heterogeneous Tool Set. Parameters such as classes, properties, individuals, or whole ontologies may be instantiated with arguments in a host ontology. The potential of Generic DOL is illustrated with GODPs for an example from the literature, namely the Role design pattern. We also discuss how larger GODPs may be composed by instantiating smaller GODPs.