Generic Ontology Design Patterns at Work

TL;DR

This paper introduces Generic Ontology Design Patterns (GODPs) within the Generic DOL framework, demonstrating their instantiation and composition capabilities for flexible ontology modeling.

Contribution

It presents a formalization of GODPs in Generic DOL, enabling parameterized and composable ontology design patterns with practical implementation insights.

Findings

GODPs can be instantiated with various parameters.

Larger GODPs can be composed from smaller ones.

The approach is demonstrated with the Role design pattern.

Abstract

Generic Ontology Design Patterns, GODPs, are defined in Generic DOL, an extension of DOL, the Distributed Ontology, Model and Specification Language, and implemented using Heterogeneous Tool Set. Parameters such as classes, properties, individuals, or whole ontologies may be instantiated with arguments in a host ontology. The potential of Generic DOL is illustrated with GODPs for an example from the literature, namely the Role design pattern. We also discuss how larger GODPs may be composed by instantiating smaller GODPs.