1 Party A party is a person or an organisation 1 Description Logics the ontology is designed to provide a controlled and unambiguous means to represent valid configuration profiles in application systems. As the aim of the ontology is to support the operationalization of particular system-related processes; this task is performed automatically in that the ontology is processed in an automatic manner by means of reasoners or APIs. ConfigurationTask usedOntologyEngineeringTool street Name of the street and number (address). designedForOntologyTask OWL-Full modificationDate Date of the last modification made to the ontology 1 definedBy Information about a knowledge representation paradigm a particular language adheres to KnowledgeRepresentationParadigm 1 complementary to the query formulation dimension, this task applies ontologies to semantically optimize query expressions by means of the domain knowledge (constraints, subsumption relations etc.) The task can be interpreted as a particular art of filtering information. The task is performed automatically; however, it assumes the availability of patterns describing the transformations at query level. QueryRewritingTask FormalityLevel The level of formality of an ontology 1 the task characterizes how ontologies are used to refine common keywordbased search algorithms using domain knowledge in form of subsumption relations. Ontology-driven search is usually performed automatically by means of reasoning services handling particular aspects of an ontology representation language. SearchTask name The name by which this element is formally known 1 country The name of the country Location The geographical location of a party. To keep things simple we use only DatatypeProperties instead of introducing classes for country, street, etc. Highly Informal status It specifies the tracking information for the contents of the ontology. Pre-defined values OntologyType This class subsumes types of ontologies according to well-known classifications in the Ontology Engineering literature. acronym A short name by which a kR paradigm is known 1 OWL-XML 1 1 1 1 1 keywords List of keywords related to an ontology. Typically this set includes names of the classes, properties, etc. 1 Person A named individual. Represents an individual responsible for the creation, or contribution to an ontology isOfType Open Software License (OSL) INTEL Open Source License (INTEL OSL) 1 resourceLocator The location where the ontology can be found. It should be accessible via a URL 1 1 URI The URI of the ontology which is described by this metadata describes generic types of tasks or activities e.g. selling, selecting. Task Ontology 1 1 hasPriorVersion numClasses Number of classes in the ontology firstName The first name of a person hasFormalityLevel 1 1 numIndividuals Number of individuals in the ontology 1 the ontology is used in information retrieval settings as a controlled vocabulary for representing user queries. Usually the task is performed automatically in that the concepts of the ontology is are listed in a query formulation front-end in order to allow users to specifies their queries. QueryFormulationTask 1 the task characterizes how ontologies provide an integrating environment, an inter-lingua, for information repositories or software tools. In this scenario the ontology is applied (semi-)automatically to merge between heterogeneous data pools in the same or in adjacent domains. IntegrationTask city Name of the city (and zip code). 1 phoneNumber The phone number of a person DAML-OIL 1 developedBy 1 definesOntologyType 1 lastName The surname of a person 1 General Public License (GPL) Apple Public Source License (APSL) 1 Organisation An organisation of some kind. Represents social institutions such as universities, companies, societies etc. 1 OntologyEngineeringMethodology Information about the ontology engineering methodology isIncompatibleWith 1 1 hasLicense hasContactPerson 1 1 1 1 isContactPerson hasContributor describes general, domain-independent concepts e.g. space, time Upper Level Ontology description Free text description of the formality level hasSyntax useImports Common Public License (CPL) LicenseModel A license model describing the usage conditions for an ontology Modified BSD License (mBSD) 1 eMail The email address of a person 1 usedKnowledgeRepresentationParadigm Semi-informal specifiedBy 1 the goal of matching is to establish links between semantically similar data items in information repositories. In contrast to the previous task, matching does not include the production of a shared final schema/ontology as a result of aggregating the matched source elements to common elements. W.r.t. the automatization level the range varies from manual to fully-automatical execution. MatchingTask specifiesLicense the ontology is built to reduce the ambiguities between communicating human or machine agents. It can act as a normative model which formally and clearly defines the meaning of the terms employed in agent interactions. In the context of programmed agents, the task is envisioned to be performed automatically. MediationTask 1 1 1 hasOntologyLanguage Rigorously Formal describes some domain of the world Domain Ontology OWL-Lite Semi-formal hasAffiliatedParty numProperties Number of properties in the ontology 1 1 1 developesOntologyEngineeringMethodology developesOntologySyntax describes some domain in an application-dependent manner Application Ontology state The state of a country. specifiesKnowledgeRepresentationParadigm 1 hasOntologySyntax numAxioms Number of axioms in the ontology the ontology is used mainly for providing personalized access to information resources. Individual user preferences w.r.t. particular application settings are formally specified by means of an ontology, which, in conjunction with appropriate reasoning services, can be directly integrated to a personalization component for filtering purposes. The usage of ontologies in personalization tasks might be carried out in various forms, from a direct involvement of the user who manually specifies ontological concepts which optimally describe his preferences, to the ontological modelling of user profiles. PersonalizationTask usedOntologyEngineeringMethodology in this scenario, the goal of the ontology is to provide a clearly defined classification and browsing structure for the information items in a repository. Again, the task can be performed manually by domain experts or as part of an application in an automatic or semi-automatic way. IndexingTask 1 IBM Public License (IBM PL) OntologySyntax Information about the syntax used in an Ontology RDF/XML contributesToOntology version Specifies the version information of the ontology. Version information could be useful for tracking, comparing and merging ontologies. The number could be incremented by 1, or a smaller or larger value, depending on the personal preference of the author. supportsRepresentationParadigm OWL-DL isBackwardCompatibleWith Frames 1 Information about the language in which the ontology is implemented OntologyLanguage hasDomain Academic Free License (AFL) developesOntologyLanguage the ontology is used as a controlled vocabulary to annotate Semantic Web resources. This task includes the usage of a semantically rich ontology for representing arbitrarily complex annotation statements on these resources. The task can be performed manually or (semi-)automatically. AnnotationTask creationDate Date when the ontology was initially created 1 OntologyEngineeringTool A tool used to create the ontology 1 1 1 hasCreator 1 1 developesOntologyEngineeringTool naturalLanguage The language of the content of the ontology, i.e. English, German, etc. 1 1 1 createsOntology Information about the task the ontology was intended to be used for OntologyTask isLocatedAt 1 faxNumber The fax number of a person documentation URL for further documentation 1 Lesser General Public License (LGPL) OWL the task describes at a very general level how ontologies are applied to refine the solution space of a certain problem, such as information retrieval or personalization. The task is targeted at being performed semi-automatically or automatically. FilteringTask RDF(S) 1 1 OntologyDomain 1 1 describes the most important concepts in a specific domain Core Ontology 1 Aspects of specific realizations are covered modular (and extendable) by the class Ontology. Ontology 1 1