Re: [ontology-summit] [OAF] [Case studies]

[Michael F Uschold <uschold@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nicola,

I agree that conceptual modeling is a very important use.  I see this more and more in industry, companies get value from ontologies (and even taxonomies)  just by having a way to be on the same page, seeing the big picture.

I'm finding the exercise of putting the framework into OWL is a great forcing function for thinking, and reduces ambiguity in communicating to otehrs. A great example of the conceptual modeling.

The OWL version of OAF has nothing on this yet. There are so may ways to slice the pie, I'm still getting my head around it.

Michael 

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Nicola Guarino <guarino@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Dear Michaels,

       something which is missing  from the OAF picture on the community wiki is the use of ontologies for conceptual modelling, and in general for understanding a domain. This is clearly mentioned in the paper cited below (and in many other places, of course), and was also emerging from the online discussion (which I am following only sporadically, I admit...).

Talking to you soon,

Nicola

P.S. I find the bullet on "Semantic augmentation" a bit confusing, let's think about how to improve it...

On 3 Mar 2011, at 04:31, Michael F Uschold wrote:

> 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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