From fd430df2447040dc5630f4d3a68352f166cefe13 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?J=C3=A9r=C3=B4me=20Euzenat?= <Jerome.Euzenat@inria.fr>
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 08:38:24 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] - improved presentation and provided references to edoal
---
html/format.html | 70 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/html/format.html b/html/format.html
index acefa180..fdf86f61 100644
--- a/html/format.html
+++ b/html/format.html
@@ -15,7 +15,9 @@
it as imput for further alignment methods, transform it into axioms
or transformations or compare different alignments.</p>
<p>This is a first format that could be extended for accomodating
- further needs.</p>
+ further needs. The Alignment API offers the <a href="edoal.html">Expressive and
+ Declarative Ontology Alignment Language (EDOAL)</a> for more
+ elaborate uses.</p>
<p>We describe below its source descriptions, its specifications and
some implementations.</p>
@@ -35,7 +37,7 @@
<p>The namespace used by these formats is <tt>http://knowledgeweb.semanticweb.org/heterogeneity/alignment#</tt>.</p>
-<h2>Format descriptions</h2>
+<h2>Format description</h2>
<h3><tt>Alignment</tt> class</h3>
@@ -44,11 +46,11 @@
<dl compact="1">
<dt>xml</dt><dd>(value: "yes"/"no") indicates if the alignment can be
read as an XML file compliant with the DTD;</dd>
-<dt>level</dt><dd>(values: "0", "1", "2OWL") the level of alignment</dd>
+<dt>level</dt><dd>(values: "0", "1", "2EDOAL") the level of alignment</dd>
<dt>type</dt><dd>(values:
"11"/"1?"/"1+"/"1*"/"?1"/"??"/"?+"/"?*"/"+1"/"+?"/"++"/"+*"/"*1"/"*?"/"?+"/"**") the type of alignment;</dd>
-<dt>onto1</dt><dd>(value: URL) the first ontology to be aligned;</dd>
-<dt>onto2</dt><dd>(value: URL) the second ontology to be aligned;</dd>
+<dt>onto1</dt><dd>(value: Ontology) the first ontology to be aligned;</dd>
+<dt>onto2</dt><dd>(value: Ontology) the second ontology to be aligned;</dd>
<dt>map</dt><dd>(value: Cell*) the set of correspondance between
entities of the ontologies.</dd>
</dl></p>
@@ -69,10 +71,26 @@
<h3><tt>Relation</tt> class</h3>
<p>This class does not currently exists in the format (it exists in
- its implementation). Currently, the relation is expressed as a string.</p>
+ its implementation). Currently, the relation is expressed as a
+ string. It can be a Java classname. If this class is available
+ under the Java environment, then the relation will be an instance
+ of this class.</p>
+
+<h2>Extensions</h2>
+
+<p>The format as implemented here supports extensions both on
+ Alignments and on Cells. I.e., if additional string-valued
+ qualified attributes are added to the objects, they will be preserved through
+ the implementation.
+</p>
+<p>
+Moreover, many standard extensions have already been defined and are
+<a href="labels.html">documented</a>.
+</p>
<h2>JAVA implementation</h2>
-<p>The Alignment API implements this format. In particular it provides tools for:
+
+<p>The <a href="index.html">Alignment API</a> implements this format. In particular it provides tools for:
<ul compact="1">
<li>Outputing the RDF/XML format from the API;</li>
<li>Parsing the RDF/XML format into the API;</li>
@@ -85,22 +103,46 @@
<div class="fragment"><pre>
$ java -jar lib/procalign file://$CWD/rdf/onto1.owl file://$CWD/rdf/onto2.owl
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' standalone='no'?>
-<!DOCTYPE rdf:RDF SYSTEM "align.dtd">
-
<rdf:RDF xmlns='http://knowledgeweb.semanticweb.org/heterogeneity/alignment#'
xmlns:rdf='http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#'
- xmlns:xsd='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#'>
+ xmlns:xsd='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#'
+ xmlns:align='http://knowledgeweb.semanticweb.org/heterogeneity/alignment#'>
<Alignment>
<xml>yes</xml>
- <type>11</type>
- <onto1>file://$CWD/rdf/onto1.owl</onto1>
- <onto2>file://$CWD/rdf/onto2.owl</onto2>
+ <level>0</level>
+ <type>**</type>
+ <align:method>fr.inrialpes.exmo.align.impl.method.StringDistAlignment</align:method>
+ <align:time>7</align:time>
+ <onto1>
+ <Ontology rdf:about="http://www.example.org/ontology1">
+ <location>file:examples/rdf/onto1.owl</location>
+ <formalism>
+ <Formalism align:name="OWL1.0" align:uri="http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#"/>
+ </formalism>
+ </Ontology>
+ </onto1>
+ <onto2>
+ <Ontology rdf:about="http://www.example.org/ontology2">
+ <location>file:examples/rdf/onto2.owl</location>
+ <formalism>
+ <Formalism align:name="OWL1.0" align:uri="http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#"/>
+ </formalism>
+ </Ontology>
+ </onto2>
+ <map>
+ <Cell>
+ <entity1 rdf:resource='http://www.example.org/ontology1#reviewedarticle'/>
+ <entity2 rdf:resource='http://www.example.org/ontology2#journalarticle'/>
+ <relation>=</relation>
+ <measure rdf:datatype='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#float'>0.4666666666666667</measure>
+ </Cell>
+ </map>
<map>
<Cell>
<entity1 rdf:resource='http://www.example.org/ontology1#journalarticle'/>
<entity2 rdf:resource='http://www.example.org/ontology2#journalarticle'/>
- <measure rdf:datatype='xsd:float'>0.0</measure>
<relation>=</relation>
+ <measure rdf:datatype='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#float'>1.0</measure>
</Cell>
</map>
</Alignment>
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