Mediating knowledge between application components.pdf

Mediating Knowledge between Application Components Monica Crub´ezy, Zachary Pincus and Mark A. Musen Stanford University, CA 94305, USA crubezy@ Abstract to exchange, and to interoperate on, a common set of In such contexts as the Semantic Web, data and knowledge elements. the components of an application increas- Our solution centers around the design of a ingly rely on ontological models and content mediating component—one that isolates and pro- knowledge developed and maintained by in- cesses the knowledge needed for configuring differ- dependent contributors. These components also are designed to be building blocks of ent knowledge-based components to work together various applications. We advocate the use in a particular application. This middle component of a mediating component that defines and encodes declarative mapping relations that express processes the knowledge transformations re- rules to resolve mismatches between the concepts and quired to enable application components to properties defined in the ontologies of two applica- exchange, and inter-operate on, knowledge tion components. The mediating component inter- and data. We present our approach and as- prets mapping relations to transform knowledge and sociated tools to support developers (1) in data from one component into knowledge and data defining mapping relations between the on- expected by another component. We have de