[news.eclipse.modeling.mdt.eodm] Re: Model Transformation

[Dennis Wagelaar <dennis.wagelaar@xxxxxxxxx>]

Guillaume Gauffre schreef:
> Thank you for the link, I hope some people will help us.
> I think the only thing I need is to convert my OWL/XML file into an 
> OWL/XMI file, as Gordon Xie said in the thread "owl2owl.ecore instead 
> owl2ecore transformation".
> If anybody has any informations about this conversion and the tools to 
> doing it, I'm really interested !
> won't it be relevant to include that conversion in EODM components ?
>
> Regards,
> Guillaume
>
> Tom a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to do something similar (but I am working from a 
> > gmf-based editor), and I am similarly confused about how EODM deals 
> > with individuals ;(
> >
> > I started this thread on the gmf group:
> >
> > http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/article.php?id=8726&group=eclipse.modeling.gmf#8726 
> >
> >
> > Good luck,
> > Tom

Not sure if it's relevant, but I've used the EODM meta-model included in 
IODT (http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/semanticstk). I've managed to 
transform UML to OWL with ATL in this way, but there were a few pitfalls:

- Output OWL syntax deviated from what Protégé needs, so I had to do 
some manual editing. EODM does not understand all legal OWL formatting 
and neither does Protégé.
- Before ATL can use the OWL meta-model, you first need to load an OWL 
file into the EODM editor.
- The EODM version I used does not understand URL aliases and wants to 
download all OWL references from the actual URL. I worked around this by 
using "file:/..." URLs.

The following page describes what I've been doing:

http://ssel.vub.ac.be/ssel/research:mdd:platformkit:ontologies

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Regards,
Dennis