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Toward a Canonical Method to Solve Patterns of Ontology Modelling Issues 19 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________Figure 7 shows the delivered ontology to model the courses of the ReSIST University Curricula application. The root class of this ontology was named “Course”, and it is subsumed by the class “Abstract-Information” in the AKT Portal Ontology.<?xml version="1.0" ?> - <rdf:RDF xmlns:dct="http://www.77cn.com.cn/dc/terms/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.77cn.com.cn/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:xsd="http://www.77cn.com.cn/2001/XMLSchema#" xmlns:rdfs="http://www.77cn.com.cn/2000/01/rdf-schema#" xmlns:owl="http://www.77cn.com.cn/2002/07/owl#" xmlns:akt="http://www.77cn.com.cn/ontology/portal#" xmlns:daml="http://www.77cn.com.cn/2001/03/daml+oil#" xmlns:dc="http://www.77cn.com.cn/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns="http://www.77cn.com.cn/ontology/courseware#" xml:base="http://www.77cn.com.cn/ontology/courseware"> + <owl:Ontology rdf:about=""> <rdfs:Class rdf:ID="Prerequisite" /> + <owl:Class rdf:ID="Student-Interaction-Type"> + <owl:Class rdf:ID="Pre-requisite"> + <owl:Class rdf:ID="Course"> + <owl:Class rdf:ID="Assessment-Method"> + <owl:ObjectProperty rdf:ID="has-courseware"> + <owl:ObjectProperty rdf:ID="submitted-by"> + <owl:ObjectProperty rdf:ID="has-assessment-method"> + <owl:ObjectProperty rdf:ID="has-prerequisite"> + <owl:ObjectProperty rdf:ID="involves-organization"> + <owl:ObjectProperty rdf:ID="has-student-interaction-type"> + <owl:ObjectProperty rdf:ID="has-rights"> + <owl:ObjectProperty rdf:ID="has-infrastructure-requirement"> + <owl:ObjectProperty rdf:ID="taught-at"> + <owl:ObjectProperty rdf:ID="has-instructor"> + <owl:ObjectProperty rdf:ID="has-author"> <rdf:Property rdf:about="http://www.77cn.com.cn/dc/elements/1.1/created" /> + <owl:DatatypeProperty rdf:ID="course-objectives"> + <owl:DatatypeProperty rdf:ID="detailed-description"> + <owl:DatatypeProperty rdf:ID="hours-of-labs"> + <owl:DatatypeProperty rdf:ID="has-rights-cost"> + <owl:DatatypeProperty rdf:ID="course-duration"> + <owl:DatatypeProperty rdf:ID="has-language"> + <owl:DatatypeProperty rdf:ID="hours-of-personal-study"> + <owl:DatatypeProperty rdf:ID="hours-of-lectures"> + <owl:DatatypeProperty rdf:ID="has-rights-copyright"> + <owl:DatatypeProperty rdf:ID="is-taught-present"> + <owl:DatatypeProperty rdf:ID="has-rights-description"> + <owl:DatatypeProperty rdf:ID="number-of-credits"> + <owl:DatatypeProperty rdf:ID="total-hours-engagement"> </rdf:RDF> <!-Created with Protege (with OWL Plugin 2.1, Build 284) http://protege.stanford.edu -->Figure 7 – Main elements of the ReSIST University Curricula Ontology7The actual end-user ReSIST University Curricula application integrated into the overall ReSIST Knowledge Base, that uses this ontology, was developed by Ian Millard (Millard et al., 2006). In my role as a postgraduate student, I contributed to the development of the application carrying out different activities such as:- The creation of the mentioned ontology as it was detailed here.7http://resist.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ontologies/courseware.owl/