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.
>
>
>
> --
> Michael Uschold, PhD
> Senior Ontology Consultant, Semantic Arts
> LinkedIn:
http://tr.im/limfu
> Skype, Twitter: UscholdM
>
>