UMBEL v 1.10 Released

[mkbergman]

We today released version 1.10 of the UMBEL (Upper Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer) reference concept ontology [1]. This new release is in preparation for a series of subsequent releases planned over the next few months that will extend the functionality of the system in important ways.

This is the first UMBEL version to be created and loaded from scratch using a new Clojure scripting framework. Fred Giasson describes these scripts and highlights some of the new functionality in a separate blog post [2].

Besides this new processing framework, here are some of the key changes at a high level made in this new version:

• Reconciliation with the parent OpenCyc concepts
• Added reference concept definitions where missing
• Added additional altLabels (to the semsets) in many cases
• Checked graph integrity for relationships between concepts
• Reviewed and corrected prefLabels to make them unique (for more usefulness in autocompletion)
• Checked assignments of all reference concepts to a parent SuperType
• Reviewed SuperType assignment inconsistencies and removed some disjoint assertions
• Updated mappings with OpenCyc (version 4.0, dated October 12, 2012), GeoNames (version 3.1, dated October 29, 2012), schema.org (version 1.9, dated August 19, 2014) and the DBpedia ontology (version 3.9, retrieved August 18, 2014).

The resulting mappings now are:

• 26,091 Reference Concepts in UMBEL Core
• 1,925 Reference Concepts in UMBEL Geo
• 27,691 links between OpenCyc and UMBEL (which includes Core & Geo)
• 754 links between Schema.org classes and UMBEL
• 688 links between Geonames.org classes and UMBEL
• 682 links between the DBpedia ontology classes and UMBEL.

These changes have also resulted in some improvements to the umbel.org Web site and its Web services [1], as more fully described by Fred. The updated ontologies and mappings may be found at the UMBEL GitHub site [3].

We welcome your questions or comments!

Thanks!

[1] http://umbel.org
[2] http://fgiasson.com/blog/index.php/2014/09/09/major-umbel-release-1-10/
[3] https://github.com/structureddynamics/UMBEL