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[Michael F Uschold <uschold@xxxxxxxxx>]

Population of a Framework for Understanding and Classifying Ontology Applications

I remember this from way back, someone took the ontology application framework Jasper and I created and populated it.  Might be worth skimming again for those interseted in the case studies and the ontology application framework tracks.

Abstract. A framework[1] recently developed for understanding

and classifying ontology applications provides opportunities to

review the state of the art, and to provide guidelines for application

developers from different communities. The framework identifies

four main categories of ontology applications: neutral authoring,

ontology as specification, common access to information, and

ontology-based search. Specific scenarios are outlined for each

category, and a number of features have been identified to

highlight the similarities and differences between them. In this

paper we populate the scenarios with a number of prominent

research and industrial applications within diverse communities

such as knowledge engineering, heterogenous information systems

integration, enterprise modelling, Web based applications, and

object-oriented distributed systems. Population of the framework

should allow different communities to discover applications that

fulfil specific purposes and benefits, to discover what roles the

ontology plays, who the principle actors are and what they do, and

what supporting technologies are used for these applications.

Potential application developers can examine the descriptions in

the populated framework to inspire them to use different methods

and technologies for their specific applications.

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Michael Uschold, PhD
   Senior Ontology Consultant, Semantic Arts

   LinkedIn: http://tr.im/limfu
   Skype, Twitter: UscholdM

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