 to 
generating a model from scratch.

&gt; &gt;    This also points out some fruitful areas of research for tool
&gt; &gt; builders.  It would be nice to compile the ontology to an SQL
&gt; &gt; DB schema.  I
&gt; &gt; believe Bill's company is working on that.
&gt;
&gt;MW: This might be useful, but personally I think that merging data models,
&gt;ontologies, and database definition, would be even better. We have
&gt;also taken approaches that involve a fixed database structure whatever
&gt;the data model/