Issues in mapping metamodels in the ontology development metamodel

Although the request for proposal for the Ontology Development Metamodel called for a metamodel and UML profile supporting OWL, the working party has decided that there are a number of modeling languages used for ontology development so that several languages will be supported in the ODM [odm], namely RDF/RDFS/OWL, Simple Common Logic (SCL), Topic Maps and the Entity-Relationship model, as well as UML.