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Information Object Design Pattern for Modeling
Domain Specific Knowledge
Nitin Arora1, Rupert Westenthaler1, Wernher Behrendt1, Aldo Gangemi2
1 Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft m.b.H.,
A5020 Salzburg, Austria
{.}@salzburgresearch.at
2Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Roma (Italy)
aldo.gangemi@istc.cnr.it
Abstract. We report on a standardized container object called Knowledge
Content Object for the management of rich media content which is enhanced
by representations of domain knowledge. KCOs are based on the Information
Object Design Pattern originally developed for the DOLCE foundational ontology.
We describe a methodology for stepwise refinement of the domain specific
knowledge in these container objects. The work aims at bringing semantic
web technologies and object-oriented software engineering closer together.
1 Introduction
Modeling domain specific knowledge plays an important role throughout the software
development cycle. Since many applications nowadays are web-based, there is an
increasing number of cases where domain specific knowledge is not only needed to
drive a particular application, but also to describe in a formal fashion, the content that
is being exchanged between service oriented applications. Knublauch et al. in [1]
highlight the use of semantic web technologies (like RDF [2]…