Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Sweetening Ontologies with DOLCE
EKAW '02 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. Ontologies and the Semantic Web
Semantic Matchmaking of Web Resources with Local Closed-World Reasoning
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Knowledge representation in the semantic web for Earth and environmental terminology (SWEET)
Computers & Geosciences
Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies
Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies
AgreementMaker: efficient matching for large real-world schemas and ontologies
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Ontology alignment for linked open data
ISWC'10 Proceedings of the 9th international semantic web conference on The semantic web - Volume Part I
Semantic Web
RW'11 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Reasoning web: semantic technologies for the web of data
An ontology design pattern for referential qualities
ISWC'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on The semantic web - Volume Part I
Local closed world semantics: grounded circumscription for OWL
ISWC'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on The semantic web - Volume Part I
Ontology design patterns for semantic web content
ISWC'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on The Semantic Web
Ontology paper: The SSN ontology of the W3C semantic sensor network incubator group
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
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Ontology design patterns ease the engineering of ontologies, improve their quality, foster reusability, and support the alignment of ontologies by acting as common building blocks or strategies for reoccurring modeling problems. This makes ontology design patterns key enablers of semantic interoperability and, hence, a crucial technology for representing the body of knowledge of such heterogeneous domains as the geosciences. While different types of patterns can be distinguished, existing work on geo-ontology design patterns has solely focused on content patterns, i.e., design solutions for domain classes and relationships. In this work, we propose a logical pattern that addresses a frequent modeling problem that has hampered the development of sophisticated geo-ontologies in the past, namely how to model the quantification over types. We argue for the need for such a pattern, explain why it is difficult to model, demonstrate how to implement it using the Web Ontology Language OWL, and finally show how it can be applied to modeling concepts such as biodiversity.