Mereotopology: a theory of parts and boundaries
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special issue on modeling parts and wholes
OntoQuest: exploring ontological data made easy
VLDB '06 Proceedings of the 32nd international conference on Very large data bases
OWL-QL-a language for deductive query answering on the Semantic Web
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
OntoDB: it is time to embed your domain ontology in your database
DASFAA'07 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Database systems for advanced applications
Querying ontology based database using OntoQL (an ontology query language)
ODBASE'06/OTM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 Confederated international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: CoopIS, DOA, GADA, and ODBASE - Volume Part I
Ontology-based resources for bioinformatics analysis
International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies
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We present the semantic data model for an ontological database for subcellular anatomy for Neurosciences. The data model builds upon the foundations of OWL and the Basic Formal Ontology, but extends them to include novel constructs that address several unresolved challenges encountered by biologists in using ontological models in their databases. The model addresses the interplay between models of space and objects located in the space, objects that are defined by constrained spatial arrangements of other objects, the interactions among multiple transitive relationships over the same set of concepts and so on. We propose the notion of parametric relationships to denote different multiple ways of parcellating the same space. We also introduce the notion of phantom instances to address the mismatches between the ontological properties of a conceptual object and the actual recorded instance of that object in cases where the observed object is partially visible.