Something Nasty in the Woodshed: The Public Knowledge Model

OWLED*06 Workshop on OWL: Experiences and Directions

Robert Stevens1 ; Phillip Lord2 ; Andrew Gibson1 ; 2 School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Claremont Tower,

PID  :  79507

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

Ontologies encoded in OWLDL can be complex and even arcaneto all but the encoders themselves. It is well understood that the user model or user view of this knowledge model should be different. The ontology knowledge model might, for instance, drive a forms based interface populated with appropri ate terms driven by knowledge captured in the ontology. The knowledge model, however, will be used as a component via some API and the application is it self a user. There are often parts of the knowledge model that, while being a representation of the universe being modeled, do not or should not be seen by the application, let alone the enduser of, for instance, the forms. In this position paper we speculate on requirements for metadata that would make such knowl edge artefacts “invisible” to the user, but remain part of the knowledge model that is reasoned over. We also discuss possible options and consequences for hiding