[seek-dev] KR / OWL question

[Manu Juyal]

Rich and Shawn

I am trying deal with the issue of representing all the possible words an 
object can be called ( I hope I used the right sentence). Let me give you an 
example,
Projections in GIS are also called as "Horizontal Coordinate 
Systems", "Spatial References", "Projection Systems". 

I think its imperative for our tools to recognize all these terms and be able 
to recognize what they mean. I was wondering what is best way to represent 
this kind of knowledge. I went through many examples but haven't found any 
project implementing this issue. 

Can you please give me some lead in this direction?

regards,
Manu
 


Quoting Manu Juyal <Manu.Juyal at asu.edu>:

> Thanks! Rich and Shawn
> 
> Your inputs were very helpful. I'll have some more questions later this
> week. 
> I'll send them to you.
> 
> regards
> Manu
> 
> Quoting Rich Williams <rwilliams at nceas.ucsb.edu>:
> 
> > Hi Manu -
> > 
> > Yes you can.  It is entirely non-obvious and there has been a ton of
> > traffic
> > on the subject on the Protege-owl mailing list.  Using the default
> > Protege
> > import mechanism doesn't do what you want, as you found out.
> > 
> > David Kaplan has produced some instructions for doing what you want:
> > http://erizo.ucdavis.edu/~dmk/notes/Protege+OWL+Imports.html.  I
> think
> > this
> > should get you going ok.  You need a recent Protege 2.1 beta and the
> > 1.1
> > beta owl plugin.
> > 
> > Note also the use of ont-policy.rdf file to allow you to access
> local
> > copies
> > of imported ontologies.  Here's Holger's original msg about that:
> > http://protege.stanford.edu/mail_archive/msg07547.html
> > 
> > Hopefully this will help.  If you need some further clarification,
> > don't
> > hesitate to ask.
> > 
> > Rich
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: seek-kr-sms-admin at ecoinformatics.org
> > > [mailto:seek-kr-sms-admin at ecoinformatics.org]On Behalf Of Manu
> Juyal
> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 12:39 PM
> > > To: Shawn Bowers
> > > Cc: seek-kr-sms at ecoinformatics.org
> > > Subject: [seek-kr-sms] OWL question
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi Rich and Shawn
> > > I was wondering if we can reference other projects or ontologies
> > > in OWL as we
> > > used to do it in protege.
> > >
> > > For Example.. In Protege, when we include a project as reference
> in
> > our
> > > project using "include project" from file menu, we can not make
> > > changes to the
> > > included project from our project( included project were shown by
> > > dim color).
> > > However, whenI tried to attempt the same in OWL, I realized that
> > > we can modify
> > > the included project.
> > >
> > > Did you also observe this? Does it have any implications on our
> > > ontologies?
> > >
> > >
> > > regards,
> > > Manu Juyal
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> Manu Juyal
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regards,
Manu Juyal
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