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

[Gary Berg-Cross <gbergcross@xxxxxxxxx>]

Megan,

> how can we

make the content itself (i.e., semantic web ontologies) more reusable?
  - What kinds of best practices should be adopted (specifically, with
respect to the non-functional attributes of ontology design)?

One thought here is to leverage the work discussed in the 2008 Summit. 

http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_04_10

 PeterHaase (AIFB, U of Karlsruhe; Project NeOn) spoke on  "The OMV Ontology Metadata Vocabulary"  OMV (Ontology Metadata Vocabulary) was originally developed within the Knowledge Web project and at least maintained (by the OMV consortium) for a few years - not sure of the status now. Some uses and tool support for OMV was developed in the NeOn project.

See

http://mayor2.dia.fi.upm.es/oeg-upm/index.php/en/downloads/75-omv

and

https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/VCDE/Ontology+Metadata+Vocabulary+(OMV)+-+Selected+Citations

Perhaps others are more familiar with the status of things. Most of the references are 5-6 years old, but there is a book, The NeOn Ontology Models that discusses it and one of rthe co-authors (Aldo Gamgemi) is speaking as part of the Bottleneck Track

• Alessandro Adamou, 
 
• Raúl Palma, 
 
• Peter Haase, 
 
• Elena Montiel-Ponsoda,
 
• Guadalupe Aguado de Cea, 
 
• Asunción Gómez-Pérez, 
 
• Wim Peters, 
 
• Aldo Gangemi

Gary Berg-Cross, Ph.D.  

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On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 7:29 PM, Gary Berg-Cross <gbergcross@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Megan,

> how can we

make the content itself (i.e., semantic web ontologies) more reusable?
  - What kinds of best practices should be adopted (specifically, with
respect to the non-functional attributes of ontology design)?

One thought here is to leverage the work discussed in the 2008 Summit. 

http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_04_10

 PeterHaase (AIFB, U of Karlsruhe; Project NeOn) spoke on  "The OMV Ontology Metadata Vocabulary"  OMV (Ontology Metadata Vocabulary) was originally developed within the Knowledge Web project and at least maintained (by the OMV consortium) for a few years - not sure of the status now. Some uses and tool support for OMV was developed in the NeOn project.

See

http://mayor2.dia.fi.upm.es/oeg-upm/index.php/en/downloads/75-omv

and

https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/VCDE/Ontology+Metadata+Vocabulary+(OMV)+-+Selected+Citations

Perhaps others are more familiar with the status of things. Most of the references are 5-6 years old, but there is a book, The NeOn Ontology Models that discusses it and one of rthe co-authors (Aldo Gamgemi) is speaking as part of the Bottleneck Track

• Alessandro Adamou, 
• Raúl Palma, 
• Peter Haase, 
• Elena Montiel-Ponsoda,
• Guadalupe Aguado de Cea, 
• Asunción Gómez-Pérez, 
• Wim Peters, 
• Aldo Gangemi

Gary Berg-Cross, Ph.D.  

gbergcross@xxxxxxxxx     

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

NSF INTEROP Project  

http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0955816

SOCoP Executive Secretary

Knowledge Strategies    

Potomac, MD

240-426-0770

On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Megan Katsumi <katsumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi All,

While I do not wish to overshadow all of the dialogue that has taken
place since Andrea's initial email, I do have a comment to make that
is more specific to the original question of reusable content on the
Semantic Web.

I think an important focus to incorporate for Track A relating to the
topic of reusable content on the semantic web might be: how can we
make the content itself (i.e., semantic web ontologies) more reusable?
  - What kinds of best practices should be adopted (specifically, with
respect to the non-functional attributes of ontology design)?
  - What sort of metadata is the most useful when identifying a
suitable ontology for reuse?

These questions take a slightly different perspective than many of
those that have been posed so far, which seem more content-oriented to
me.  Despite this, I think they are also key questions that can serve
to better inform the challenges in the scope this track.  Further, I
think that it is quite feasible that we might obtain a satisfactory
consensus/collection of answers to these question during this year's
summit, from the collective experiences of the participants.
Look forward to hearing your thoughts on this.

Megan

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 1:53 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
>
> --
> Andrea Westerinen
> T: 425.891.8407
> arwesterinen@xxxxxxxxx or andreaw@xxxxxxxxxxx
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?AndreaWesterinen
> organizingknowledge.blogspot.com
>
>

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