Re: [ontolog-forum] Garcia's Ontology development method

[Doug McDavid <dougmcdavid@xxxxxxxxx>]

On the stakeholder question, I guess it depends on whether ontology is a tool in your kit, or your raison d'etre. If the former, you will know stakeholders and their desires, and will match the tools and techniques.  If the latter (which is natural for people on this list) you will go looking for stakeholders who need your tool.  This discussion seems tools-driven, which is OK as long as those stakeholder needs are not simply projections of your own desires as a developer.

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Alexander Garcia Castro <alexgarciac@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

asking questions is  not very accurate. It all depends on the actual method or technique one decides to use during knowledge elicitation and domain analysis. again in my experience I have found useful to use concept mapping. But it all depends on the type   number and availability of domain experts. In other situations I have also used card sorting. asking is not always advisable, as asking may introduce an unnecessary bias in the elicitation process. Also bear in mind that usually one goes for domain experts and other knowledge sources. The process should be as systematic and unpersonalized as possible -not always easy.

modularization and evolution are easy to "see" when eliciting knowledge.

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yep, but who should answer the question?
The first step in my book is 'identify the stakeholders'

then ask the question  etc etc

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Jack Ring <jring@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Alexander,
Thanks for this.
In Step 1 it is essential to gain semiotic coherence with users who may not
understand or know how to read ontologies. Have you considered CMap,
http://cmap.ihmc.us or other concept mapping aid in this step?
Jack Ring
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> Hi Marc, check:
> www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2105-7-267.pdf
[...]
> A quick sumary for developing ontologies:
>
> Step 1: The first step involves addressing straightforward questions
> such as: what is the ontology going to be used for? How is the
> ontology ultimately going to be used by the software implementation?
> What do we want the ontology to be aware of, and what is the scope of
> the knowledge we want to have in the ontology?
[..]

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