Science Knowledge Infrastructure Ontology 3 . 0

This report provides a partial description of the ontology for Science Knowledge Infrastructure (SKIo), an ontology that represents science knowledge primitives such as theory, prediction, geoscience model, observation. SKIo is developed to enhance digital representation and use of such knowledge in e-Science environments. It is specified in this report via a UML representation, including class diagrams and related text descriptions. A full description of SKIo can be obtained by using this report in conjunction with the accompanying OWL-DL representation. This report provides a partial description of the ontology for Science Knowledge Infrastructure (SKI), an ontology that represents basic science knowledge elements such as theory, hypothesis, geoscience model, observation. The ontology is specified in this report via an UML representation, including class diagrams and a text description for each class. A full description of SKI can be obtained by using this report in conjunction with the accompanying OWL-DL formalization of SKI. Terminology For convenience, the term " class " is used throughout this document in the UML sense to refer to an abstraction that is part of the SKI ontology, and the term " relation " is used to refer to an association between classes. The phrase " Science Knowledge Infrastructure " is borrowed from Hars (2001), where it refers to the science knowledge rudiments required to support e-science. key DOLCE classes and relations are represented and described in this report, in addition to the SKI components. In particular, the top DOLCE classes are included as well as intermediary DOLCE subclasses that are immediately superordinate to each SKI class. In some cases other intermediary classes (between the top and superordinate DOLCE classes) are omitted for space reasons. Mechanics The UML class diagrams and descriptions were developed and automatically generated using Enterprise Architect (version 7.0.816, Build 816)