Versions and Applicability of Concept Definitions in Legal Ontologies

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@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/owled/KlarmanHB08, author = {Szymon Klarman and Rinke Hoekstra and Marc Bron}, title = {Versions and Applicability of Concept Definitions in Legal Ontologies}, booktitle = {OWL: Experiences and Directions (OWLED)}, pages = {online} year = {2008} pdf = {http://www.webont.org/owled/2008dc/papers/owled2008dc_paper_6.pdf}, abstract = {In many domains concept definitions undergo change on a relatively frequent basis. Especially in law, such changes can have far reaching consequences. Existing ontology versioning techniques often do not consider that old and new definitions may need to co-exist side by side in a knowledge base, or they require non-standard language extensions. In this paper we present a description logic based representation that allows us to model and switch between varying definitions of concepts in a single OWL ontology. We show how this representation can be used to model complex versioning schemes in law.}, topic = {OWL Application, Legal Ontology, Ontology Versioning} }

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notes by Li

• modeling domain concepts (life science).
• wanted features:
  • ordering on objects
  • conflicts
  • evolution and versioning
  • validity
  • rules?