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I'm a freelance or consulting ontologist. I've been a full-time, professional applied ontologist since 1998. In my current practice I work both long-term projects and shorter-term, task-based contracts. I do ontology development and design, team and project methodology, training, and associated tasks. I also offer assistance to organizations wanting to adopt semantic technologies but not sure exactly what they need or how to proceed; in this role, my focus is on helping folks identify their requirements and how best to proceed in order to meet them. I'm also strongly interested in research into ontology evaluation, quality assurance, and best practices, including design patterns. I'm particular interested in better understanding of the problem features the affect applicability of particular practices, and of the nature of such dependencies. {nid 2SFJ}
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I'm an consulting ontologist. I've been a full-time, professional applied ontologist since 1998. In my current practice I work both long-term projects and shorter-term, task-based contracts. I do ontology development and design, team and project methodology, training, and associated tasks. I also offer assistance to organizations wanting to adopt semantic technologies but not sure exactly what they need or how to proceed; in this role, my focus is on helping folks identify their requirements and how best to proceed in order to meet them. I'm also strongly interested in research into ontology evaluation, quality assurance, and best practices, including design patterns. I'm particularly interested in better understanding of the problem features that affect applicability of particular practices, and of the nature of such dependencies. {nid 2SFJ}
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As one of the few epistemologists working in applied formal ontology, I tend to have reasoning perpetually in mind when developing formal ontology. In part, this is a matter of habit; in part, it reflects a conscious difference in methodology. For both reasons, I keep in mind the reasoning, and belief-formation generally, an ontology supports. What will users do with it, either directly or via some system(s) of which it is a part? Is this ontology intended to support some knowledge-building community, process, or exchange? If so, does it suit its purpose, overall? What belief formation is most supported by it, and how well does that match the desired knowledge? Given the context, does the ontology incorporate and support good epistemic practices? These are the most motivating questions for me, even when I am down in the weeds of some bit of representation. {nid 19RP}
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As one of the few epistemologists working in applied formal ontology, I tend to have reasoning perpetually in mind when developing formal ontology. In part, this is a matter of habit; in part, it reflects a conscious difference in methodology. For both reasons, I keep in mind the reasoning, beliefs, awareness, and decisions an ontology supports. What will users do with it, either directly or via some system(s) of which it is a part? Is this ontology intended to support some knowledge-building community, process, or exchange? If so, does it suit its purpose, overall? What belief formation is most supported by it, and how well does that match the desired knowledge? Given the context, does the ontology incorporate and support good epistemic practices? These are the most motivating questions for me, even when I am down in the weeds of some bit of representation. {nid 19RP}
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