zamazal2009bInternational audienceMany use cases for semantic technologies (eg. reasoning, modularisation, matching) could benefit from an ontology transformation service. This service is supported with ontology transformation patterns consisting of corresponding ontology patterns capturing alternative modelling choices, and an alignment between them. In this paper we present the transformation process together with its two constituents: a pattern detection and an ontology transformation process. The pattern detection process is based on SPARQL and the transformation process is based on an ontology alignment representation with specific extensions regarding detailed information about the transformation
