Subscriptions as Class Definitions

• we can instead express JBI subscriptions as OWL class definitions

 
<owl:Class rdf:ID="RunwayClosure">
  <sameClassAs>
    <owl:Restriction>
      <owl:onProperty rdf:resource="#qcode"/>
      <owl:hasValue>QMRLC</owl:hasValue>
    </owl:Restriction>
  </sameClassAs>
</owl:Class>
      

• Jeff Pan's dissertation work at Manchester

• moves the information from the client to a (private) ontology definition

• Description Logic Implementors Group (DIG) protocol supports
  • FaCT (open source)
  • RACER
  • Cerebra (a scalable high-performance commercial reimplementation of FaCT)