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Bridging the gap between data ontologies and process ontologies. Dipl. Geogr. Christoph Rüther Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Münster Robert-Koch-Str. 26-28, D-48149 Münster, Germany ruether@ifgi.uni-muenster.de. Overview.
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Bridging the gap between data ontologies and process ontologies Dipl. Geogr. Christoph Rüther Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Münster Robert-Koch-Str. 26-28, D-48149 Münster, Germany ruether@ifgi.uni-muenster.de
Different information communities (IC) have different perceptions of the real world Data models represent concepts, which may, or may not, conform to the perceptions in the information communities. Objective: to develop a mechanism to bind the perception of different ICs to the concepts represented in processes and in the database. Research problem
Research Question What can a data provider do to support process ontologies ?
Approach Develop functions which take objects from a database and produce objects according to a process ontology.
Conclusion • Most current research is focused on ontologies at the data level. • Our research concentrates on the gap between data model and process model. • We attempt to build ontologies supporting the processes of using data (e.g. network analysis).