Ontology Maturing: a Collaborative Web 2.0 Approach to Ontology Engineering
S. Braun, A. Schmidt, A. Walter, G. Nagypal, and V. Zacharias. Proceedings of the Workshop on Social and Collaborative Construction of Structured Knowledge at the 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 07), Banff, Canada, (2007)
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.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Social and Collaborative Construction of Structured Knowledge at the 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 07), Banff, Canada
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%A Walter, Andreas
%A Nagypal, Gabor
%A Zacharias, Valentin
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%D 2007
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%X 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.
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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.},
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