Data interoperability remains an
important problem in the industry today which is handled by
the mapping experts and data consultants
who understand the semantic meaning of each entity in a specific
interface and define the mappings among different document artifacts, usually as XSLT rules.
In order to facilitate this costly and tedious process, the OASIS SET TC
(http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=set)
has been established.
The SET TC provides standard specification of UN/CEFACT CCTS based
standards such as UBL 2.0, GS1 XML and OAGIS 9.1 to facilitate
the development of tools to support semantic document interoperability.
Currently, the SET Harmonized Ontology contains about 4758 Named OWL Classes
and 16122 Restriction Definitions conforming to the specification
described in the SET TC Deliverable consisting of the following:
- All of the CCs/BIEs in UN/CEFACT CCL 07B.
- All of the BIEs in the common library of UBL 2.0.
- All of the common library of GS1 XML.
- OAGIS 9.1 Common Components and Fields
- The Harmonized Ontology expresses the relationships
among the document artifacts of UN/CEFACT CCL, UBL 2.0,
OAGIS 9.1 and GS1 XML according to SET specifications.
- The SET Harmonized Ontology is publicly available
from
http://www.srdc.metu.edu.tr/iSURF/OASIS-SET-TC/ontology/HarmonizedOntology.owl
The harmonized ontology computes the inferred ontologies and reveals
the implicit equivalences and subsumtion relationships among the
document artifacts
hence indicating similarities among document components from
different schemas.
In order to facilitate the creation of the OWL definition
of document schemas, the SET XSD-OWL Convertor tool provided. This tool
converts a CCTS
based document schema into OASIS SET TC OWL Definition and is publicly
available from
http://www.srdc.metu.edu.tr/iSURF/OASIS-SET-TC/tools/OASISSET.zip.
You can join this TC from
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/join.php?wg_abbrev=set
For more information contact the chair, Professor Asuman Dogac (asuman@srdc.metu.edu.tr)
