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What else is going on with ontology standards?

April 26, 2017going ontology Standards

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What else is going on with ontology standards?

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UML (Unified Modeling Language) is also viewed as a language for designing ontology. Software engineers can design an ontology by organizing object classes in a class hierarchy and creating relationships among them. However, UML has some limitations. For example, UML does not support the notion of conceptual equivalence. Also, UML has insufficient means for describing restrictions and constraints. Software engineers can use the Object Constraint Language (OCL), but it may be difficult to understand for business analysts. In short, an ontology language provides richer semantics than UML. OMG (Object Management Group) issued a Request for Proposal for an Ontology Definition Meta-model in March 2003. The request is for an MOF (Meta Object Facility) meta-model for ontology development with a mapping to UML and a binding to OWL. This meta-model will provide a translation from UML to OWL, and the use of UML tools in ontology definition.