[esip-semanticweb] Mapping between CLEAN and SWEET or GCMD

Mon Apr 1 16:41:01 EDT 2013

We have done quite a bit of work in crosswalks between vocabularies,
including GCMD.

A map with links to ontologies is at

http://iri.columbia.edu/~benno/dlfigure.svg

with blue being Models, Red being crosswalks, and Green Instances

As for OWL vs SKOS,  It is funny you should ask that.  We have a SKOS-like
vocabulary we call iriterms (left side of map), which has a property
 term:isDescribedBy  which connects items to the terms that they are
described by.   In Owl, that property is rdf:type, i.e. the terms are
classes and instances belong.  The original SKOS had such a property, but I
was under the impression they had deprecated it, convincing me they were
not serious about using their systems for anything.  Perhaps you could
straighten me out?

Benno

On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Marshall X Ma <max7 at rpi.edu> wrote:

> We were working a bit on the mapping between two SKOS vocabularies, namely
> CLEAN and GCMD, and we focused on the instance to instance mapping.****
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> Personally I was thinking to focus on the mapping between instances of
> ‘skos:Concept’ and instances of subclasses of ‘owl:Class’, just do not want
> to make myself confused between instance and class.****
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> Some resources w.r.t. this issue, perhaps you already have them.****
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> A document discussing OWL and SKOS:
> http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/SKOS/skos-and-owl/master.html****
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> And there is a tool that can covert OWL ontologies to SKOS vocabularies:
> http://owl.cs.manchester.ac.uk/owltoskos/****
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> Thanks,****
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> --Marshall****
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> *From:* Steve Richard [mailto:steve.richard at azgs.az.gov]
> *Sent:* Monday, April 01, 2013 00:09
> *To:* 'John Graybeal'
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> *Cc:* 'Marshall X Ma'; esip-semanticweb at rtpnet.org
> *Subject:* RE: [esip-semanticweb] Mapping between CLEAN and SWEET or GCMD*
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> I haven’t delved into the problem recently, but I think the current trick
> is ‘punning’, in which an element it treated as either a class or an
> instance depending on the context.****
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> steve****
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> *From:* John Graybeal [mailto:jgraybeal at ucsd.edu <jgraybeal at ucsd.edu>]
> *Sent:* Saturday, March 30, 2013 3:40 AM
> *To:* steve.richard at azgs.az.gov
> *Cc:* 'Marshall X Ma'; esip-semanticweb at rtpnet.org
> *Subject:* Re: [esip-semanticweb] Mapping between CLEAN and SWEET or GCMD*
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> Marshall, Steve, all,****
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> Did you all ever come up with a best practice for bridging the SKOS-OWL
> divide, as discussed below?  Back in the OWL 1.0 days I know this was,
> like, unbridgeable, but with 2.0 I think the experts were talking about
> creating a relation that appropriately related SKOS terms to OWL concepts.
> But then I had to pay attention to other things....****
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> John****
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> On Nov 2, 2012, at 17:00, steve richard <steve.richard at azgs.az.gov> wrote:
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> The SKOS-OWL is particularly interesting to me (instance vs. class). I’ve
> wrestled with this trying to figure out how to bind the CGI GeoScience
> vocabularies (http://resource.geosciml.org/201202/) with OWL (e.g.
> SimpleLithology2012 with CGI_Lithology.owl<https://www.seegrid.csiro.au/subversion/CGI_CDTGVocabulary/trunk/OwlWork/CGI_Lithology.owl>
> ).****
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> The issue emerges again in an ontology for geologic map unit integration
> I’ve been working on. If you’re at the Geological Society of America
> Meeting in Charlotte next week, come and visit my poster****
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> Monday Nov 5, Charlotte Convention Center, Hall B, Poster Booth Number:
> 186. “A GEOLOGIC UNIT SCHEME FOR REGIONAL GEOLOGIC MAP INTEGRATION”****
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> steve****
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> *From:* esip-semanticweb-bounces at lists.esipfed.org [mailto:esip-
> semanticweb-bounces at lists.esipfed.org] *On Behalf Of *Marshall X Ma
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 01, 2012 4:30 PM
> *To:* esip-semanticweb at rtpnet.org
> *Subject:* [esip-semanticweb] Mapping between CLEAN and SWEET or GCMD****
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>  ****
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> We want to test the mapping between non-specialist vocabularies and
> specialist vocabularies. A good example can be the mapping between CLEAN
> vocabulary and SWEET ontology or GCMD keywords.****
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>  ****
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> Anyone has done/thought this work before or, any ideas on the following
> questions? Thanks.****
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>  ****
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> * CLEAN is a non-specialist vocabulary for climate and energy****
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> ** ref: http://cleanet.org/clean/about/climate_energy_.html****
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> ** A SKOS encoding of CLEAN vocabulary seralized in turtle format:
> https://scm.escience.rpi.edu/svn/public/projects/gcis/branches/initial_rdf/skos/clean.ttl
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> * [Question 1 ] Mapping between CLEAN vocabulary and SWEET?****
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> ** We have experience on mapping between two skos vocabularies: using
> skos:broadMatch, skos:narrowMatch, etc.****
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> ** SWEET is in OWL encoding****
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> *** Comparison between a skos concept and an owl class****
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> *** Anyone has experience on mapping between skos and owl?****
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>  ****
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> * [Question 2] Or, we can try to map between CLEAN vocabulary and GCMD
> keywords?****
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> ** GCMD keywords has its version 7.0 in SKOS encoding:
> http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/Connect/docs/kms/KeywordManagementServiceAPI.pdf
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Dr. M. Benno Blumenthal          benno at iri.columbia.edu
International Research Institute for climate and society
The Earth Institute at Columbia University
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