@inproceedings{BraunSchmidtWalterZachariasODBASE08, title = {Using the Ontology Maturing Process Model for Searching, Managing and Retrieving Resources with Semantic Technologies}, author = {Simone Braun and Andreas Schmidt and Andreas Walter and Valentin Zacharias}, booktitle = {OnTheMove Federated Conferences 2008 (DAO, COOP, GADA, ODBASE), Monterrey, Mexico}, publisher = {Springer}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, year = 2008, url = {http://publications.andreas.schmidt.name/BraunSchmidtWalterZachariasODBASE08_ontology_maturing.pdf}, timestamp = {2008.11.18}, abstract = {Semantic technologies are very helpful in improving existing systems for searching, managing and retrieving of resources, e.g. image search, bookmarking or expert finder systems. They enhance these systems through background knowledge stored in ontologies. However, in most cases, resources in these systems change very fast. In consequence, they require a dynamic and agile change of underlying ontologies. Also, the formality of these ontologies must fit the users needs and capabilities and must be appropriate and usable. Therefore, a continuous, collaborative and work or task integrated development of these ontologies is required. In this paper, we present how these requirements occur in real world applications and how they are solved and implemented using our Ontology Maturing Process Model.}, biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2199d4ed905b55aba27f8f6c9c3d460fc/mature}, keywords = {fzi conference ontology_maturing ipe lang:en matureip ontology_engineering imagenotion from:aschmidt} } @inproceedings{SchmidtMATUREIKNOW08, title = {Conceptual Foundations for a Service-Oriented Knowledge & Learning Architecture: Supporting Content, Process, and Ontology Maturing}, author = {Andreas Schmidt and Knut Hinkelmann and Stefanie Lindstaedt and Tobias Ley and Ronald Maier and Uwe Riss}, booktitle = {8th International Conference on Knowledge Management (I-KNOW 08), Graz}, year = 2008, url = {http://publications.andreas.schmidt.name/IKNOW08_KS_Schmidt_MATURE.pdf}, timestamp = {2008.09.03}, pdf = {http://publications.andreas.schmidt.name/IKNOW08_KS_Schmidt_MATURE.pdf}, abstract = {The knowledge maturing model views learning activities as embedded into, interwoven with, and even indistinguishable from everyday work processes. Learning is understood as an inherently social and collaborative activity. The Knowledge Maturing Process Model structures this process into five phases: expressing ideas, distributing in communities, formalizing, ad-hoc learning and standardization. It is applicable not only for content but also to process knowledge and semantics. In the MATURE IP two toolsets will be develop that support the maturing process: a personal learning environment and an organisation learning environment integrating the levels of individuals, communities and organisation. The development is guided by the SER theory of seeding, evolutionary growth and reseeding and is based on generally applicable maturing services.}, biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/227f7a5d554e7f6bffb50c09bebcb4db8/mature}, keywords = {architecture service ontology_maturing matureip process_maturing content_maturing} } @inproceedings{BraunSchmidtCOOP08, title = {People Tagging & Ontology Maturing: Towards Collaborative Competence Management}, author = {Simone Braun and Andreas Schmidt}, booktitle = {8th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems (COOP '08), Carry-le-Rouet, France, May 20-23, 2008}, year = 2008, url = {http://publications.andreas.schmidt.name/Braun_Schmidt_CollaborativeCompetenceManagement_COOP08.pdf}, pdf = {http://publications.andreas.schmidt.name/Braun_Schmidt_CollaborativeCompetenceManagement_COOP08.pdf}, abstract = {Competence Management approaches, aiming at making transparent individual competencies and their relationship to organizational goals, suggest promising instruments for more effective resource allocation, knowledge management, learning support, and human resource development in general. However, especially on the level of individual employees, such approaches have so far not been able to show sustainable success on a larger scale. Piloting applications like expert finders have often failed in the long run because of incomplete and outdated data, apart from social and organizational barriers. This affects both competency profiles of the individual employee and non-adequate and often also outdated competency catalogs used as a vocabulary for the profiles. To overcome these problems, we propose a collaborative competence management approach. In this approach, we combine Web 2.0-style bottom-up processes with organizational top-down processes: Web 2.0 oriented bottom-up processes allow every employee to participate and contribute with low usage barriers; i.e. by tagging colleagues; the organizational processes take up and guide these bottom-up developments towards organizational goals. Key idea is that we cannot do competence management completely without an agreed vocabulary (or ontology), i.e. the competency catalog, but we have to make the process of evolving this catalog more collaborative and embedded into its actual usage (e.g., while tagging other employees). Likewise, we do not conceive competency profiles as self-descriptions, but rather as results of collective judgments of others. We approached this problem as a collaborative ontology construction problem of which the conceptual foundation is the Ontology Maturing Process Model. In order to realize the Ontology Maturing Process Model for competence management, we have built the AJAX-based semantic social bookmarking application SOBOLEO that offers task-embedded competence ontology development and an easy-to-use interface.}, biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/258e7df8f8dfc868ff5f75080fd993a38/mature}, keywords = {folksonomy for:mature competence_management ontology tagging ontology_maturing competence} } @incollection{BraunSchmidtWalterZachariasIWM08, title = {Von Tags zu semantischen Beziehungen: kollaborative Ontologiereifung}, author = {Simone Braun and Andreas Schmidt and Andreas Walter and Valentin Zacharias}, booktitle = {Good Tags and Bad Tags - Workshop „Social Tagging in der Wissensorganisation“}, editor = {Birgit Gaiser and Thorsten Hampel and Stefanie Panke}, publisher = {Waxmann}, year = 2008, timestamp = {2008.02.22}, biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2380f9c212a74cc1046301c0933e1bc58/mature}, keywords = {aps from:aschmidt folksonomy workshop ipe fzi ontology_maturing lang:de tagging} } @inproceedings{MaierThalmannXMLT07, title = {Kollaboratives Tagging zur inhaltlichen Beschreibung von Lern- und Wissensressourcen}, author = {Ronald Maier and Stefan Thalmann}, booktitle = {XML-Tage 2007, Berlin}, year = 2007, abstract = {Für die effektive Verwaltung von Lern- und Wissens-Ressourcen in unternehmensweiten Wissensinfrastrukturen sowie deren Verwendung in fortgeschrittenen Lern- und Wissensdiensten werden aussagekräftige Metadaten benötigt. Mit der starken Zunahme von Lern- und Wissensressourcen unterschiedlicher Qualität, Reife und Granularität in Unternehmen und Organisationen wird deren inhaltliche Beschreibung zunehmend herausfordernd, da einerseits die vollautomatische Extraktion keine befriedigenden Ergebnisse liefert und professionelle Metadatenautoren überlastet sind. In diesem Beitrag wird der Einsatz des kollaborativen Tagging zur inhaltlichen Beschreibung von Ressourcen im organisatorischen Umfeld diskutiert. Dazu werden Lern- und Wissensressourcen, Metadaten und der Ansatz des kollaborativen Taggings reflektiert. Im Rahmen eines Mehrrunden-Laborexperiments werden Fragen der Handhabung dieses Ansatzes in Organisationen untersucht. Dies betrifft insbesondere die gemeinschaftliche Anerkennung von Schlagworten (commitment), die Dynamik zugeordneter Schlagworte (convergence) und die Beeinflussbarkeit des Verschlagwortungsprozesses (coordination).}, biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2078782c3221e59757ed81e2f9977e86f/mature}, keywords = {tagging from:aschmidt ontology_maturing lang:de} } @inproceedings{BraunSchmidtWalterZachariasESOE07, title = {The Ontology Maturing Approach to Collaborative and Work-Integrated Ontology Development: Evaluation Results and Future Directions}, author = {Simone Braun and Andreas Schmidt and Andreas Walter and Valentin Zacharias}, booktitle = {International Workshop on Emergent Semantics and Ontology Evolution (ESOE), ISWC 2007, Busan/Korea}, year = 2007, url = {http://publications.andreas.schmidt.name/braun_schmidt_walter_zacharias_ESOE07.pdf}, timestamp = {2007.11.11}, pdf = {http://publications.andreas.schmidt.name/braun_schmidt_walter_zacharias_ESOE07.pdf}, abstract = {Ontology maturing as a conceptual process model is based on the assumption that ontology engineering is a continuous collaborative and informal learning process and always embedded in tasks that make use of the ontology to be developed. For supporting ontology maturing, we need lightweight and easy-to-use tools integrating usage and construction processes of ontologies. Within two applications – ImageNotion for semantic annotation of images and SOBOLEO for semantically enriched social bookmarking – we have shown that such ontology maturing support is feasible with the help of Web 2.0 technologies. In this paper, we want to present the conclusions from two evaluation sessions with end users and summarize requirements for further development.}, biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/280de1520a08203a89d3b0e26b31db07b/mature}, keywords = {workshop maturing lang:en fzi ipe aps ontology_maturing from:aschmidt} } @inproceedings{BraunSchmidtWalterWWW07, title = {Ontology Maturing: a Collaborative Web 2.0 Approach to Ontology Engineering}, author = {Simone Braun and Andreas Schmidt and Andreas Walter and Gabor Nagypal and Valentin Zacharias}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Social and Collaborative Construction of Structured Knowledge at the 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 07), Banff, Canada}, year = 2007, url = {http://www.andreas-p-schmidt.de/publications/ontology_maturing_braun_schmidt_walter_www07.pdf}, timestamp = {2007.05.08}, pdf = {http://www.andreas-p-schmidt.de/publications/ontology_maturing_braun_schmidt_walter_www07.pdf}, owner = {aschmidt}, abstract = {Most of the current methodologies for building ontologies rely on specialized knowledge engineers. This is in contrast to real-world settings, where the need for maintenance of domain specific ontologies emerges in the daily work of users. But in order to allow for participatory ontology engineering, we need to have a more realistic conceptual model of how ontologies develop in the real world. We introduce the ontology maturing processes which is based on the insight that ontology engineering is a collaborative informal learning process and for which we analyze characteristic evolution steps and triggers that have users engage in ontology engineering within their everyday work processes. This model integrates tagging and folksonomies with formal ontologies and shows maturing pathways between them. As implementations of this model, we present two case studies and the corresponding tools. The first is about image-based ontology engineering (introducing so-called imagenotions), the second about ontology-enabled social bookmarking (SOBOLEO). Both of them are inspired by lightweight Web 2.0 approaches and allow for realtime collaboration.}, biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/27232249898619ff9962ba5c04e74584d/mature}, keywords = {aps wissensnetz fzi soboleo lang:en ontology_maturing ipe imagination folksonomy professional_learning maturing ontologies from:aschmidt ontology_engineering} } @inproceedings{Braun_et_al_2007, title = {Ontology Maturing with Lightweight Collaborative Ontology Editing Tools}, address = {Berlin}, author = {Simone Braun and Andreas Schmidt and Valentin Zacharias}, booktitle = {4th Conference on Professional Knowledge Management - Experiences and Visions, Workshop on Productive Knowledge Work (ProKW 07)}, editor = {Norbert Gronau}, month = {March}, pages = {217-226}, publisher = {GITO}, volume = 2, year = 2007, day = {28-30}, url = {http://www.andreas-p-schmidt.de/publications/Braun_Schmidt_Zacharias_OntologyMaturing_WM07.pdf}, location = {Potsdam, Germany}, pdf = {http://www.andreas-p-schmidt.de/publications/Braun_Schmidt_Zacharias_OntologyMaturing_WM07.pdf}, abstract = {Ontology building is an important prerequisite for state-of-the-art semantic technologies for knowledge worker support. But ontology engineering methods have so far neglected the early phase of ontology building where a conceptualization only exists rather informally and underlies continuous evolution through collaboration and interaction within the community. We have to view ontology building as a maturing process that requires collaborative editing support and the integration into the daily work processes of knowledge workers. In spirit of current Web 2.0 applications, we present an AJAX-based lightweight ontology editor as a first approach to this problem.}, biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/29c43d957c716738bae4d032fd2f95129/mature}, keywords = {aps wissensnetz ontology_maturing ontology professional_learning soboleo folksonomy fzi from:aschmidt maturing ipe lang:en workshop ontology_engineering} } @inproceedings{BraunSchmidtZacharias07, title = {SOBOLEO: vom kollaborativen Tagging zur leichtgewichtigen Ontologie}, address = {München}, author = {Simone Braun and Andreas Schmidt and Valentin Zacharias}, booktitle = {Mensch \& Computer - 7. Fachübergreifende Konferenz - M\&C 2007}, editor = {Tom Gross}, pages = {209-218}, publisher = {Oldenbourg Verlag}, year = 2007, url = {http://publications.andreas.schmidt.name/Braun_Schmidt_Zacharias_SOBOLEO_MuC2007.pdf}, timestamp = {2007.09.06}, isbn = {978-3-486-58496-7 }, owner = {aschmidt}, abstract = {Bisher gibt es kein integriertes Werkzeug, das sowohl die kollaborative Erstellung eines Indexes relevanter Internetressourcen („Social Bookmarking“) als auch einer gemeinsamen Ontologie, die zur Organisation des Indexes genutzt wird, integriert unterstützt. Derzeitige Werkzeuge gestatten entweder die Erstellung einer Ontologie oder die Strukturierung von Ressourcen entsprechend einer vorgegebenen, unveränderlichen Ontologie bzw. ganz ohne jegliche Struktur. In dieser Arbeit zeigen wir, wie sich kollaboratives Tagging und kollaborative Ontologieentwicklung vereinen lassen, so dass jeweilige Schwächen vermieden werden und die Stärken einander ergänzen. Wir präsentieren SOBOLEO, ein System, das kollaborativ und web-basiert die Erstellung, Erweiterung und Pflege von Ontologien und gemeinsamer Lesezeichensammlung ermöglicht und gleichzeitig die Annotierung von Internetressourcen mit Konzepten aus der erstellten Ontologie unterstützt.}, biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/25712e57b4fbdd5e837e860f61744ac62/mature}, keywords = {conference professional_learning tagging fzi aps folksonomy ontology_maturing ipe from:aschmidt ontology soboleo lang:de maturing} }