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Re: [oor-forum] Categories for ontologies

To: mclange@xxxxxxxxxxx, OpenOntologyRepository-discussion <oor-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oliver Kutz <okutz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Till Mossakowski <Till.Mossakowski@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 18:16:54 +0200
Message-id: <51EEAC76.10301@xxxxxxx>
Dear all,    (01)

Aleksandra Sojic has created a first version of the meta ontology, see 
https://github.com/ontohub/OOR_Ontohub_API/blob/master/Domain_fields.owl 
- use "raw" for downloading and viewing with Protégé: 
https://raw.github.com/ontohub/OOR_Ontohub_API/master/Domain_fields.owl    (02)

This ontology provides a meta-classification that according to the 
domain subjects distributes domain-ontologies into the domain-specific 
classes. As the reference classification we have considered several 
international standards which are used to classify domain fields.  The 
International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) has been 
selected as the most appropriate reference for the specification of the 
(subject) categories within the OntoHub. ISCED is a member of the United 
Nations International Family of Economic and Social Classifications and 
is the reference classification for organizing education programmes and 
related qualifications by levels and fields of education (ref. ISCED). 
In particular, we have used the last version of ISCED (the final draft 
published in June 2013) as it provides a hierarchy of knowledge domains 
suitable for covering comprehensively the corresponding 
ontology-modelling fields.    (03)

The Domain-fields-ontology has to be developed further in order to 
include several other specifications, especially considering the domains 
which experience a significant expansion in the ontology development, 
e.g. Life Sciences.    (04)

Please find attached a graphical visualisation of the recently published 
Domain-fields ontology.    (05)

Best, Till    (06)

Am 29.05.2013 21:30, schrieb matthew lange:
>     We aren't taking the lead
>     in this categorization effort but if a standard (defacto or not) does
>     arise we would be interested in adapting our system to use it.
>
> Watching this thread, and interested as well...do you have a reference
> for who is heading this up?
>
>
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Ray Fergerson
> <ray.fergerson@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:ray.fergerson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Oliver,
>
>     Worth pointing out is that we (the NCBO team) don't feel that the
>     current
>     BioPortal categorization is very good. It should probably not be used as
>     the basis for anything. There are external efforts to produce a
>     categorization system for the biomedical domain. We aren't taking
>     the lead
>     in this categorization effort but if a standard (defacto or not) does
>     arise we would be interested in adapting our system to use it.
>
>     Ray
>
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>     Subject: Re: [oor-forum] Categories for ontologies
>
>     P.S.
>
>     the interesting question is then: what happens if we federate BioPortal
>     with SOCoP? We need a taxonomy including all the involved
>     categories, such
>     that in the ontology browser, all the BioPortal categories are combined
>     into one category "biology" (which can be expanded into the BioPortal
>     categories on demand).
>
>     Till
>
>     Am 29.05.2013 08:53, schrieb Till Mossakowski:
>      > Am 29.05.2013 00:29, schrieb John F Sowa:
>      >> On 5/28/2013 4:27 PM, Till Mossakowski wrote:
>      >>> After all, the user wants to use *one* ontology or classification
>      >>> system for classifying ontologies.
>      >>
>      >> What do you mean "one classification system"?
>      >
>      > In BioPortal, when the user uploads a new ontology, (s)he can provide
>      > some categories classifying the ontology. When browsing all
>      > ontologies, you can also filter them by category.
>      > The possible categories are: Animal Development, Biological Process,
>      > Human, Plant, Yeast, Cell etc. (Btw, not all categories returned by
>      > the REST service can be selected for browsing.) The OOR instance
>      > http://mercury-ncbo.ornl.gov seems to (erroneously) use the same
>      > categories In the OOR instance http://socop.oor.net, the categories
>      > are (exhaustive
>      > list): Commercial, Cultural, Defense, Financial, Geospatial,
>      > Government, Literature, Metadata, Other, Process, Provenance,
>     Science,
>      > Social Networking, Standards, Technology, Upper Ontologies.
>      > I now just wonder what we should do for Ontohub.
>      >
>      >> The number of different kinds of ontologies, their purposes, goals,
>      >> applications, levels, logics, notations, uses, etc., is open-ended.
>      >>
>      >> Suppose that somebody asked you to compare Cyc to BFO to the Good
>      >> Relations ontology to schema.org <http://schema.org>.  Where
>     would you begin?  And why?
>      >
>      > It is not about comparing ontologies. It is just that the "filter by
>      > category" dropdown box on the browsing web page needs to show a
>     finite
>      > list of options to the user...
>      >
>      > Best, Till
>      >
>
>
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DFKI GmbH Bremen                             Fax +49-421-218-9864226
Cyber-Physical Systems                      Till.Mossakowski@xxxxxxx
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http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~till/    (08)

Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz GmbH
principal office, *not* the address for mail etc.!!!:
Trippstadter Str. 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern
management board: Prof. Wolfgang Wahlster (chair), Dr. Walter Olthoff
supervisory board: Prof. Hans A. Aukes (chair)
Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313    (09)

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