Ontology Maturing: a Collaborative Web 2.0 Approach to Ontology Engineering

Jahr:
2007

Autoren/Hrsg:
Simone Braun, Andreas Schmidt, Andreas Walter, Gabor Nagypal, Valentin Zacharias

Publikationstyp:
Kongressbeitrag/Proceeding

Quelle:
In: Natasha Noy and Harith Alani and Gerd Stumme and Peter Mika and York Sure and Denny Vrandecic (eds.): Proceedings of the Workshop on Social and Collaborative Construction of Structured Knowledge (CKC 2007) at the 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007) Banff, Canada, May 8, 2007, CEUR Workshop Proceedings vol. 273, 2007

Abstract:
For state-of-the-art semantic technologies, ontology building is an important prerequisite. They may allow improved information retrieval and processing for knowledge workers. Most of the current methodologies rely on knowledge engineers to build these ontologies. This is in contrast to realworld settings, where the need for maintenance of domain specific ontologies emerges in the daily work of users. Users practically have no chance to act on their need for new concepts and relations directly—instead, they are forced to ask the responsible knowledge engineers. This leads to frustration of users in cases when incomplete or misunderstood contents in ontologies do not help in fulfilling their needs. Therefore, we present our notion of ontology building as a collaborative and work integrated maturing process. We analyze the steps and triggers for users that allow a collaborated ontology maturing process. Such a view further requires collaborative tools supporting the integration of working and ontology engineering activities of knowledge workers. These tools are lightweight and inspired by collaborative Web 2.0 applications. Exemplified within two case studies, we will show how the tools we are currently developing realize our model and the potential of this ontology maturing process for semantic technologies.

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