Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist, 2nd Edition

Challenges

Each of the preceding patterns demonstrates the utility of combining one or more RDFS constructs to achieve a particular modeling goal. In this section, we outline a number of modeling scenarios that can be addressed with these patterns and show how they can be applied to address these challenges.

Term reconciliation

One of the most common challenges in terminology management is the resolution of terms used by different agents who want to use their descriptions together in a single federated application. For example, suppose that one agent uses the word analyst, and another uses the word researcher. There are a number of relationships that can hold between these two usages; we will examine a number of common relations as a series ...