Data Models 1.X

Motivation

Items #3 and #5 of the charter state or imply the need for a robust identity and social networking data model:

Scope item 3. Provide an API and data model for the virtual integration and federation of identity and security information from a wide variety of sources.

Scope item 5. Provide a social relationship data integration framework that enables these relationships to be persistent and reusable across application boundaries.

Overview

• Concepts terms used in the data model
• Data Model Goals --design goals
• Higgins Ontology --summary of higgins.owl (aka HOWL) classes and properties

Example Context Schemas (based on higgins.owl)

• test-person Example Context Ontology
• Person-with-address Example Context Ontology
• Person-with-friend Example Context Ontology

Status

• Data Model Open Issues
  • LDAP Issues and To-Dos --open issues specifically related to LDAP schema

Reference

RDF/OWL Related Resources

• Intro to RDF/OWL: RDF-OWL Data Model
• Semantic Web (RDF/OWL) Resources
  • Toolkit: Developers Guide to Semantic Web Toolkits
  • Reference documents: W3C Web Ontology Working Group
  • Tutorial: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~horrocks/ISWC2003/Tutorial/
• Normalization to OWL/RDF
  • Schemat
  • Sebastian Dietzold, Generating RDF Models from LDAP Directories (PDF) , 2nd Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web co-located with the 3rd European Semantic Web Conference, June 12, 2006

Other Resources

• http://identityschemas.org
• "D3.2: Models" FIDIS, October, 2005, (PDF 74 pages). Summary: "The objective of this document is to present in a synthetic way different models of representation of a person ("person schema") that can be used in different application domains.
• eduPerson spex

See Also

• Higgins Wiki