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Software component ontology
Core properties and classes
Software components shall be described through an OWL ontology.
Core properties and classes shall be:
- Product development and release related metadata (i.e. same properties as those captured by Maven POM, OSGi manifest headers and/or DOAP; those schemas could be augmented).
- Reputation.
- License information.
- License style (capturing different licenses’ similarities could be useful).
- Activity level.
- Functionalities.
- Implemented API or frameworks (i.e. EJB 3.0 specification, or the JDBC API).
- Hierarchically organized common features (i.e.: logging, persistence, parsing; Maven Repository’s tags cloud could be taxonomically organized, acting as a good starting point to formally describe software libraries in terms of functional features and areas).