Building on this idea of Ontology repositories as effective
discovery mechanisms there is
this idea of
metadata for ontologies which could be made part of the
repositories.
The idea has
surfaced at past O Summits but also some of the Ontolog OOR
development meetings.
He
noted - Meta-ontology
categories play several important roles in an OOR
Meta-ontology categories
in the OOR context
The
Primary roles are
-Organising
ontology collection
-
Facilitating ontology retrieval
Related roles
exchange
and advancement of knowledge
e.g.
smart grouping (task, type, logics etc.) allows
•novel
interoperability scenarios
•ontology
reuse across domains
Impacts OOR functionality
e.g.
via User Interface (browsing and uploading ontology by
accessing meta-data)