Re: [ontology-summit] [Reusable Content] Characterizing or measuring reu

["John Yanosy Jr." <jyanosyjr@xxxxxxxxx>]

With regards to Hans comments I agree mostly and as one of the authors of the NCOIC scope I had placed significant discussion oriented on semantic interoperability and ontologies and different context considerations. Regardless I can see that the original context plays a role in defining the intended meaning of the ontology elements, but I might offer a possible relationship between context and the size and connectedness of the ontology model. It may be that smaller ontologies and extracted portions of an ontology may be less dependent on original context. I also think that the more property restrictions might constrain reuse. Yet is there anything wrong in the reuse concept when refining an extracted portion of an ontology.

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On Jan 27, 2014 12:53 PM, "Andrea Westerinen" <arwesterinen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Other important questions in the "reusable content" arena are how to ascertain and improve the amount of reuse.  

It "seems" that reuse is low, but there are many sites offering reusable content and therefore many opportunities for reuse. For example, in the Ontology Design Pattern (ODP) space, there are:

 - W3C'S Ontology Engineering and Patterns Task Force (OEP) [1]

 - Ontology Design Patterns org wiki [2]

 - ODP Public Catalog [3]

In addition, there are foundational ontologies available, as discussed in the Upper Ontology Summit (2006) [4], as well as domain ontologies like FIBO. 

So, does the wealth of information contradict the perception?

Or, is content present but it is just very difficult to use/re-use?  

Perhaps we need to refine our engineering approaches and abilities to better find and evaluate reusable content?  This is discussed in a paper by María Poveda-Villalón, Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa and Asunción Gómez-Pérez [5] that I found quite interesting.

I personally would love to see a review and recommendation system put in place for ontologies, patterns, linked data models, etc. Is this something that we could achieve? 

[1] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/OEP/

[2] http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/Main_Page

[3] http://www.gong.manchester.ac.uk/odp/html/index.html

[4] http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit

[5] http://oa.upm.es/5432/1/REUSING_ONTOLOGY_DESIGN_PATTERNS_IN_A_CONTEXT_ONTOLOGY_NETWORK.pdf

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