Ontology Modelling
- most of my ontologies have been simple
- a lot of web content is pretty simple (e.g. hotel chain locations, soccer scores, ...)
- DAML+OIL needs to be simple enough for the simple 80% of applications,
but powerful enough for the remaining 20%
- here
is a summary of use of DAML+OIL features (actually daml:property counts) in the DAML Ontology Library
- ontology developers are beginning to use more advanced features
- recent additions: translations of Cyc and IEEE SUO upper ontologies
- DAML+OIL offers some valuable capabilities beyond OOP and DB systems
- subproperties
- disjointUnionOf
- class expressions
- instance-level multiple inheritance