OCML Ontologies to XML Schema Lowering ? , ? ?

Ontologies are explicit specifications of a conceptualization intended for logical processing. They are used to express meaning and to apply it on otherwise less structured data. Nevertheless other models of organization and structure of knowledge, like database models and XML document definition standards, are widely used and valuable. In order to extend ontology usage to multiple layers of an application, or to integrate ontologies with pre-existing software, the use of these various means to structure data could be necessary. We are therfore using metadata in order to adapt an ontology to these use cases and provide the example of automatically generating user interfaces for goal descriptions in IRS-III [1] by extracting an XML schema from an ontology.