I am having trouble understanding the instructions to Context Provider 
authors regarding extending the higgins ontology as per the Context Data 
Model 1.1 page.  (I apologize in advance, if this is a basic OWL question 
or is documented elsewhere on the wiki)

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Context_Data_Model_1.1#Building_on_higgins.owl_1.1

In the section "Building on higgins.owl 1.1 " it states 

" Developers must create specialized ontologies based on HOWL that 
describe specific concrete domains.For example, if a developer wanted to 
describe a CRM database, she would create an OWL ontology that would 
describe the data objects in the CRM database. This CRM database is called 
a Context in Higgins. If, for example, the database contained records 
about customers and those customers had full-names and email addresses, 
then the developer would define "Customer" as a sub-class of Entity and 
"full-name" and "email" as kinds of Attributes."

The first sentence implies the developer should be using the "upper" 
ontology higgins1.1 owl.  But the last sentence tells the developer to 
reference the CDM and subclass Entity.  Intuitively, I think i would want 
to subclass Person from HOWL for a Customer object.  But Agent does not 
seem to subclass Entity. 

When I use OWL modeling tools like SWOOP or Protoge, I can not figure out 
how to subclass Agent as an Entity. 

Thanks for any guidance, 


David 

David Kuehr-McLaren 
Tivoli Security
Identity Integration Architecture
919.224.1960 
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