DDB/AIM Ontology Work
Rational Rose model (several .mdl files) obtained from DDB
Lewis Hart, GRCI, ran the .mdl through in-house version (soon to
be released DUET 0.2).  Resulting DAML ontologies included
attributes as DAML datatype properties, but types were off.  Rose
types are arbitrary text strings, and DDB had used C++ typedefs
rather than primitive types (e.g. Float8 rather than
double).  Knowing that, shouldn't be hard to manually massage
the .mdl and/or .daml files. DDB model was a good test case
Assessment indicates it seems focused on numeric fusion.  It
has a SIGINTSensor class (which Mike Dean used CoABS PI
Meeting demo), but not many other sensor types.  A useful start,
need to extend it significantly for EEE.
Materials available at http://www.daml.org/2001/12/ddb/
Next logical step: to generate Java classes or use the DDB DAML
ontology from Java/JINI/CoABS Grid
Will propose to use to seed the developers in ESG at joint ESG
Enabling Experiments/Semantic Web for the Military Users/Grid
Military Users Group meeting in March 2002