Difference between revisions of "Higgins.owl 1.0"

Revision as of 10:29, 18 January 2007

Published URL

http://www.eclipse.org/higgins/ontologies/2006/higgins.owl

Description

The data model of a Context is defined in higgins.owl and summarized below.

The value of the uniqueIdentifier attribute is immutable. All Digital Subjects have exactly one uniqueIdentifier attribute whose value is set when the Digital Subject is instantiated.

Note: The properties of the Context container itself are attached to special object called ContextObject within the instance data and also described in the ontology.

Classes

1. Attribute (see Identity Attribute
   • 0..N source
   • 0..N timeSpan
   • 0..1 lastModified
   • 0..1 syncConflict
   • 0..1 lastVerifiedFromSource
   • 0..1 lastVerifyAttempt
2. ComplexAttribute (subclass of Attribute)
3. ContextObject
   • 0..N hasContextRelationships
4. ContextRelationship
   • 0..N contextURI
5. SimpleAttribute (subclass of Attribute)
   • 1..N simpleValue
6. Digital Subject
   • 1..1 uniqueIdentifier
   • 0..N timeSpan
   • 0..N attribute
7. SubjectRelationship (subclass of ComplexAttribute) (see Subject Relationship)
   • 1..1 contextURI
   • 1..1 subjectCUID
8. Correlation (subclass of SubjectRelationship). If DigitalSubject A has a Correlation relation to DigitalSubject B then this implies that that A and B represent different facets (personas, roles, etc.) of the same underlying Entity. This relation only navigable in one direction: in this example from A to B.
9. TimeSpan
   • 0..1 validFrom --if not present, assume validFrom is the beginning of time
   • 0..1 validTo --if not present, assume validTo is the end of time

Subclasses of SimpleAttribute

1. Base64BinarySimpleAttribute
2. NormalizedStringSimpleAttribute
3. StringSimpleAttribute
4. IntegerSimpleAttribute

...etc for all of the XML Schema datatypes

DataType (literal valued) Properties

1. contextURI - domain(ContextRelationship, SubjectRelationship), range("anyURI")
2. lastModified - domain(AttributeMetadata), range(xsd:dateTime)
3. lastVerifiedFromSource - domain(Attribute), range(xsd:dateTime)
4. lastVerifyAttempt - domain(Attribute), range(xsd:dateTime)
5. simpleMetadata - domain(Attribute, DigitalSubject)
6. simpleValue - domain(SimpleAttribute)
7. subjectCUID - domain(SubjectRelationship), range(xsd:normalizedString)
8. syncConflict - domain(AttributeMetadata), range(xsd:boolean)
9. validFrom - domain(TimeSpan), range(xsd:date)
10. validTo - domain(TimeSpan), range(xsd:date)

Sub-Properties of simpleValue

1. base64BinarySimpleValue - domain(Base64SimpleAttribute), range(xsd:base64Binary)
2. integerSimpleValue - domain(IntegerSimpleAttribute), range(xsd:integer)
3. normalizedStringSimpleValue - domain(NormalizedStringSimpleAttribute), range(xsd:normalizedString)
4. stringSimpleValue - domain(StringSimpleAttribute), range(xsd:string)

...etc for all of the rest of the XML Schema datatypes

Object (object valued) Properties

1. attribute - domain(DigitalSubject), range(Attribute)
2. complexMetadata - domain(DigitalSubject, Attribute)
3. complexValue - domain(ComplexAttribute)
4. contextRelationship - domain(ContextObject), range(ContextRelationship)
5. source - domain(Attribute), range(SubjectRelationship). The value is a SubjectRelationship that indicates the authoritative source of the value of this Attribute
6. timeSpan - domain(DigitalSubject, Attribute), range(TimeSpan)
7. uniqueIdentifier - domain(DigitalSubject), range(higgins:StringSimpleAttribute). Uniquely identifies a DigitalSubject within a context

CVS Access

The following Eclipse Team Project Set (.psf) will give you access to the higgins.owl source file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<psf version="2.0">
 <provider id="org.eclipse.team.cvs.core.cvsnature">
  <project reference="1.0,
    :extssh:dev.eclipse.org:/cvsroot/technology,
    org.eclipse.higgins/ontology,org.eclipse.higgins.ontology"/>
 </provider>
</psf>

See Also

• Higgins Home]
• Higgins Wiki