Dear CRM specialists, I'd like to point you at a new OWL version of
CIDOC 4.2, which I have produced for other purposes. It is based on
the official RDFS version, and besides the semantic translation, it
only includes a guess about the datatypes used in some CIDOC
properties. Please refer to file documentation for details (I've put
it in a ftp area of my lab, but if you find it useful, please copy it
where appropriate:
http://www.loa-cnr.it/ontologies/CIDOC/cidoc_v4.2.owl
I've also made a simple alignment of CIDOC top classes to DOLCE-
Ultralight classes. This has been quite simple, due to the
compatibility between CIDOC and DOLCE rationales. The advantage for
CIDOC is that, through DOLCE links, it inherits class disjointness,
the potential for further alignment, specially on the property side,
and additional expressivity e.g. to model "relational contexts" or
"information object reasoning" on top of CIDOC models. The aligned
file is at:
http://www.loa-cnr.it/ontologies/CIDOC/cidoc_v4.2_DUL.owl
You can remove and redo the owl:import of DOLCE-Ultralight without
problems: leave it if you need to reason over full DOLCE, otherwise
remove it, but the disjointness will remain available.
DOLCE-Ultralight is downloadable from:
http://www.loa-cnr.it/ontologies/DUL.owl
Please let me know any comments about usefulness or possible
improvements. Consider in the next months a new library of ontology
design patterns based on DOLCE-Ultralight will be available.
Best
Aldo
