Introduction to the Meal ontology that is modelled in the vimeo screencast.

1. Ontology modelling movie
Summary
MEAL Ontology modelling tutorial – summary

2. Our ontology
 Meals: Initial ideas – just dump down the ideas
 Hot or cold
 Breakfast, lunch, dinner, supper
 Fish, meat, vegetables, fruit
 Fat, carbs, protein, vitamins
 Diet type:
• Low carb
• High carb
• Power diet
• Vegan diet
 Provider (should be another ontology)
• Care center
• Family
 Provision (should be another ontology)
• Home care services
• Catering service
• Take away
MEAL Ontology modelling tutorial – summary

3. Mark classes in our ontology & map to base classes
 Meal
 Hot or cold: ManagedIndividual Class
 Meal type: ?
• Breakfast, lunch, dinner, supper
 Ingredients
• Fish, meat, vegetables, fruit
 Fat, carbs, protein
 Diet type: ?
• Low carb
• High carb
• Power diet
• Vegan diet
 Meal Provider: ManagedIndividual
• (should be another ontology)
• Care center
• Family
 Meal Provision Service: Service
• (should be another ontology)
• Serves on (tray)
• Home care services
• Catering service
• Take away
 Meal tray: Device
MEAL Ontology modelling tutorial – summary

4. Properties and enumeration (literals) on our ontology
classes
 Meals
 Hot or cold
 Meal Type (Enumeration)
• Breakfast, lunch, dinner, supper
 Ingredients: Property
• Fish, meat, vegetables, fruit
 Fat, carbs, protein: Type/amount
 Diet type (Enumeration)
• Low carb
• High carb
• Power diet
• Vegan diet
 Provider (should be another ontology)
• Care center
• Family
 Provision (should be another ontology)
• Home care services
• Catering service
• Take away
MEAL Ontology modelling tutorial – summary

5. Associations between ontology classes
 Meals
 Hot or cold: Specialization of Meal
 Meal Type: association from Meal
 Diet type: association from Meal
 Meal Tray: association from Meal
 Provider
 association to from meal
 Association to provision
 Provision
MEAL Ontology modelling tutorial – summary

6. UML modelling procedure
 Add classes
 Naming
 Generalization associations
 Add properties
 Datatype
• If Integer, check if there is a range, e.g., 0..50
 Object
 Cardinality
 Add associations
 Object properties _can_ be association
 Cardinality
 Add enumeration
 Enumeration literals
MEAL Ontology modelling tutorial – summary

7. The result
MEAL Ontology modelling tutorial – summary