Re: [ontology-summit] [Bottlenecks] Identifying Bottlenecks in Ontology

["Hans Teijgeler" <hans.teijgeler@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Matthew,

 

I might add a copy of what I wrote on LinkedIn regarding the question "What are the real world challenges and obstacles?" (for ISO 15926):

 

Why did it take so long? Well, for starters the subject is complex, and so far nobody has achieved this lifecycle information integration.

Furthermore the ISO procedures are tedious (but worth it), and the technology is "bleeding edge".
Standardization is finding a balance between large ego's, commercial politics, short-term thinking, hard-to-make paradigm shifts, and for the most lack of funding.

 

Regards,

Hans

 

Hans Teijgeler,

Laanweg 28,

1871 BJ Schoorl,

Netherlands

www.mnei.nl

 

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From: ontology-summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ontology-summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Quentin Reul
Sent: maandag 20 januari 2014 16:42
To: dr.matthew.west@xxxxxxxxx; ontology-summit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ontology-summit] [Bottlenecks] Identifying Bottlenecks in Ontology Engineering

Hi Matthew,

I work as a Content Semantics architect at Wolters Kluwer, where we are developing ontologies to represent documents and their metadata. As part of this work, I have experienced difficulties (or bottlenecks) in the application of ontologies. 

Please find attached my answers to your questions:

• What is it that takes a lot of time and effort? There are 2 tasks that are rather time-consuming; (i) the extraction of the knowledge from Subject-Matter experts (SMEs), and (ii) the explanation of the model to developers using it. 
  
• What is it that is very expensive? The extraction of the knowledge is expensive as most SMEs have a "ideal" vision of what their knowledge is and tend to differ from the actions / reasoning they actually use. For instance, doctors will answer questions theoretically when their reasoning while consulting patients tend to be different.
  
• What is it that is held up because of a lack of scarce resources? I am not quite sure what you refer to as "scarce resources"
  
• Why is it that ontological approaches are not taken when they could/should be? Time constraint on the delivery of the ontological artifacts mean that the model and its implementation are generally not separated. 
  

Kind regards,

Quentin Reul

www.linkedin.com/in/quentinreul

On 18 January 2014 03:33, Matthew West <dr.matthew.west@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Dear Colleagues,

This year's Ontology Summit

http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2014

has as its topic: "Big Data and Semantic Web Meet Applied Ontology".

Track C of the programme is: "Overcoming Ontology Engineering Bottlenecks"

http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2014_Overcoming_Ontolo
gy_Engineering_Bottlenecks_Synthesis



So to kick Track C off, we would like to invite you to help us identify the
key bottlenecks in ontology engineering for Big Data and the Semantic Web.



-          What is it that takes a lot of time and effort?

-          What is it that is very expensive?

-          What is it that is held up because of a lack of scarce resources?

-          Why is it that ontological approaches are not taken when they
could/should be?



Please let us know on this thread, and/or add to our community input page:

http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?action="">
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vercoming_Ontology_Engineering_Bottlenecks_CommunityInput>
&id=OntologySummit2014_Overcoming_Ontology_Engineering_Bottlenecks_Community
Input



Regards



Matthew West, Pascal Hitzler, Krzysztof Janowicz



Track C Co-Champions





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