DANSK DS/ISO/IEC 21838-3 PDF

This document describes descriptive ontology for finguistic and cognitive engineering (DOLCE) as an ontology that is conformant to the requirements specified for top-level ontologies in ISO/IEC 21838-1. This document describes DOLCE as a resource designed to support ontology design, ontology integration, and semantic integration of heterogeneous information systems. The following are within the scope of this document: –     definitions of classes and relations in the signature of DOLCE; –     axiomatizations of DOLCE in OWL 2 and CL; –     documentation of the conformity of DOLCE to the requirements specified for top-level ontologies in ISO/IEC 21838-1; –     documentation of the methodology for specifying domain ontologies that conform to DOLCE. The following are outside the scope of this document: –     specification of ontology languages, including the languages RDF, OWL, and CL standardly used in ontology development; –     specification of methods for reasoning with ontologies; –     specification of translators between the notations of ontologies developed in different ontology languages.