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This paper introduces the notion of Ontology Robustness in Evolution and discusses a solution based on the distinction among a stable component and a contingent component of the ontology. The stable component represents the annotation used to store data into the ontology, while the contingent component contains assertions generated by constraining the assertions in the stable component. This distinction can be used to understand which annotations can be migrated from one old version of the ontology to a new one. This way it is minimized the number of inconsistencies introduced in annotations when evolving an ontology.
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Ceravolo, P., Damiani, E., Leida, M. (2008). Ontology Robustness in Evolution. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z., Herrero, P. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2008 Workshops. OTM 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5333. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88875-8_128
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