Nine month progress report submitted for continuation towards a PhD
Toward a Canonical Method to Solve Patterns of Ontology Modelling Issues 7 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________3. Work CompletedThis section presents different artifacts developed during the timeframe covered by this report. Section 3.1 contains certain ontology modeling issues in connection to the ReSIST project (ReSIST, 2006) and Section 3.2 provides a summary of the main work items developed while attending the Fourth European Summer School on Ontological Engineering.3.1. The ReSIST ProjectA good amount of work completed during this time, took place in the context of the ReSIST project. ReSIST stands for Resilience and Survivability in Information Society Technology (IST) and it is a Network of Excellence (NoE) project funded under the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Union (ReSIST, 2006). One of the objectives of the ReSIST project is to create a Knowledge Base (KB) application in the domain of resilient computing, partly inspired by the features demonstrated by the semantic web application CS AKTive Space (Glaser et al., 2004)(Shadbolt et al., 2004) and with many of the same requirements. The aim of the ReSIST Knowledge Base (RKB) is to provide an application to the enduser that could serve as a portal to browse and search all type of information in the field of resilient computing: projects, people, institutions, publications, communities of practice, courses, etc. All the information that constitutes the ReSIST KB is stored as Resource Description Framework (RDF) data that is generated in accordance to different ontologies required to equip the KB of semantic capabilities (Manola and Miller, 2004). The mentioned ontologies are provided in the Web Ontology Language (OWL) format (Dean and Schreiber 2004). Further information of the main components and technologies being used to develop the ReSIST KB application can be found in (Millard et al., 2006). 3.1.1. The Ontologies in the ReSIST Knowledge Base A specific aspect that is highly relevant for this report is the different ontologies being used in the ReSIST KB application and the reasons behind them. This section describes such ontologies. The first ontology is the AKT Reference Ontology (AKT, 2002), initially developed for the CS AKTive Space application (Glaser et al., 2004)(Shadbolt et al., 2004). This ontology provides a model to represent people, institutions, projects, publications, research interests, etc. The ontology fits very well the requirements of the ReSIST KB application and is being re-used in its entirety.