This document describes descriptive ontology for finguistic and cognitive engineering (DOLCE) as an ontology that is conformant to the requirements specified for top-level ontologies in ISO/IEC 21838-1.
This document describes DOLCE as a resource designed to support ontology design, ontology integration, and semantic integration of heterogeneous information systems.
The following are within the scope of this document:
definitions of classes and relations in the signature of DOLCE;
axiomatizations of DOLCE in OWL 2 and CL;
documentation of the conformity of DOLCE to the requirements specified for top-level ontologies in ISO/IEC 21838-1;
documentation of the methodology for specifying domain ontologies that conform to DOLCE.
The following are outside the scope of this document:
specification of ontology languages, including the languages RDF, OWL, and CL standardly used in ontology development;
specification of methods for reasoning with ontologies;
specification of translators between the notations of ontologies developed in different ontology languages.
| SDO | ISO: International Organization for Standardization |
| Document Number | ISO/IEC 21838 |
| Publication Date | Not Available |
| Language | en - English |
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| Committee | ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 |