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[higgins-dev] OID and name uniqueness
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Comments on Tom Doman's LDAP ontology mapping:
Two issues, name and OID uniqueness, you might want to consider in your
schema mapping.
In your mapping, it appears that if an LDAP application designer has the
same short name for an LDAP object class and for an LDAP attribute in the
directory schema, then there will be an OWL Property and an OWL Class
with the same RDF ID. (To address this, in my tool schemat I put in
prefixes "AttributeType_" and "ObjectClass_" to keep the namespace separate).
Second, while OIDs are hopefully unique within the scope of a single directory
context, as you are using urn mappings for OIDs, then there may be conflicting
definitions by different directory schemas for the same OID.
For example, comparing the definition of 2.5.6.0 (top) between
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/asn1/database/itu-t/x/x501/2005/InformationFramework.asn
and the 6 completely different definitions of 2.5.6.0 in
http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms683975.aspx
If a Higgins-using developer has connections open to multiple LDAP servers,
some using the X.500/LDAP definitions of 2.5.6.0 and others based on the
Microsoft schema, then if they are all declared as
owl:equivalentClass to urn:oid:2.5.6.0, then definitions of the 'top' with
very different sets of attributes would all be equivalent.
(Similarly, OIDs for syntaxes, e.g. Microsoft has put definitions on the
joint ITU-T/ISO 2.5.5 branch, according to
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/97cae647-d996-48ff-b478-c96193abeadb1033.mspx?mfr=true
and for attributes.)
To mitigate this in my schemat implementation, I chose to have OIDs be URIs that
are relative to the input source (e.g. if reading schema from an LDIF file,
they are identified by fragments e.g. file:///filename#1.3.6.1.4.1.1466...),
so that if using schema from another file, it will be necessary for there to
be an explicit import of that schema to get its OID definitions.
Mark Wahl
Informed Control Inc.
