A content ontology design pattern presented at the Workshop on Ontology Design Pattern at ISWC 2012

1. Conformance to Standards
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Intent Pattern Usage: Algal Biomass Production Processes
Activities, operations, processes and services in most domains of As an exemplifier for the pattern, the figure below depicts the application of SEP to
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As defined by the ISO/IEC Guide 2:19961, The Minimum Descriptive Language (MDL)2 standard proposed by the Algal Biomass
“A standard is a set of specifications that is Association3 is enforced by the production operation. MDL recommends a set of prefe
established by consensus and approved by a recognized descriptive metrics to uniformly characterise the analysis of large scale algal size o
body that provides for common and repeated use, rules,
guidelines or characteristics for activities or their results,
operations. In this use case, the ontology defines the concepts and relationships for printe
the operation and incorporates SEP by defining ontological primitives for the process,
aimed at the achievement of the optimum degree of the standard, the publishing organisation, guidelines for measuring Carbon input to
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The remit of the Standards Enforcer Pattern (SEP) is to enable the
ontological modelling of processes, activities, operations and services that
enforce guideline(s) recommended by a specific standard and need to Using
explicitly indicate their conformance to it. The pattern allows the To ad
inclusion of minimalistic information regarding the conformance, while
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retaining the flexibility to extend the ontological primitives as required.
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! Which guidelines of a standard are specifically enforced by a process?
! What is the time interval for which a process conforms to a standard?
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The pattern can be applied to use cases in all those domains where a 1. http://www.etsi.org/WebSite/Standards/WhatIsAStandard.aspx
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standard is enforced to regulate processes. The main advantage of 2. http://www.algaebiomass.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/ABO-MDL-5.0-WEB-
this pattern is that it provides the capability to link processes, VERSION-Sept-2012.pdf layou
operations, activities and services to their governing standards in a 3. http://www.algaebiomass.org/ the p
generic and “compositional” manner. Graphs produced using Graffoo (http://dwellonit.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/dwellonit/GraFFOO/index.html)
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