Dimensions of formality: a case study for MKM in software engineering

  • Authors:
  • Andrea Kohlhase;Michael Kohlhase;Christoph Lange

  • Affiliations:
  • German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence;Computer Science, Jacobs University Bremen;Computer Science, Jacobs University Bremen

  • Venue:
  • AISC'10/MKM'10/Calculemus'10 Proceedings of the 10th ASIC and 9th MKM international conference, and 17th Calculemus conference on Intelligent computer mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We study the formalization of a collection of documents created for a Software Engineering project from an MKM perspective. We analyze how document and collection markup formats can cope with an open-ended, multi-dimensional space of primary and secondary classifications and relationships. We show that RDFa-based extensions of MKM formats, employing flexible "metadata" relationships referencing specific vocabularies for distinct dimensions, are well-suited to encode this and to put it into service. This formalized knowledge can be used for enriching interactive document browsing, for enabling multi-dimensional metadata queries over documents and collections, and for exporting Linked Data to the Semantic Web and thus enabling further reuse.