oor-forum
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [oor-forum] Categories for ontologies

To: OpenOntologyRepository-discussion <oor-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: "Obrst, Leo J." <lobrst@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 23:36:31 +0000
Message-id: <FDFBC56B2482EE48850DB651ADF7FEB01F23E6F2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Mike,

 

You always have this issue, because subject-areas are very closely aligned with intellectual areas written about in books. A subject-area index or a map is really an adjunct to ontologies that can be mapped to that space. Mapping ontologies by subject-area is not necessarily wrong; it just has to be enriched by ontology-richer subject-areas such as Space, Time, Mereology, etc. If folks recall, we had proposed such a mapping in the days of IEEE SUO, circa 2002-3?

 

Thanks,

Leo

 

From: oor-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oor-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Bennett
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2013 4:34 AM
To: OpenOntologyRepository-discussion
Subject: Re: [oor-forum] Categories for ontologies

 

I have some comments to this, which I hope we can discuss at the appropriate session. In brief, as with the classification of books, a classification scheme for subjects and a classification scheme for classes of "Thing", are two separate matters! I hope we are able to keep this in mind. Let's discuss when we meet.

Best regards,


Mike

On 23/07/2013 17:16, Till Mossakowski wrote:

Dear all,

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

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.

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.

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

Best, Till

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

    -----Original Message-----
    From: oor-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    <mailto:oor-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    [mailto:oor-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    <mailto:oor-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>] On Behalf Of Till
    Mossakowski
    Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 12:14 AM
    To: oor-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:oor-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Cc: Oliver Kutz
    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
     >


    --
    Prof. Dr. Till Mossakowski  Cartesium, room 2.51 Phone
    +49-421-218-64226 <tel:%2B49-421-218-64226>
    DFKI GmbH Bremen                             Fax +49-421-218-9864226
    <tel:%2B49-421-218-9864226>
    Cyber-Physical Systems Till.Mossakowski@xxxxxxx
    <mailto:Till.Mossakowski@xxxxxxx>
    Enrique-Schmidt-Str. 5, D-28359 Bremen
    http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~till/

    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

    _________________________________________________________________
    Message Archives: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/oor-forum/
    Subscribe: mailto:oor-forum-join@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    <mailto:oor-forum-join@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Config/Unsubscribe: http://ontolog.cim3.net/mailman/listinfo/oor-forum/
    Shared Files: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OOR/
    Wiki: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OpenOntologyRepository

    _________________________________________________________________
    Message Archives: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/oor-forum/
    Subscribe: mailto:oor-forum-join@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    <mailto:oor-forum-join@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Config/Unsubscribe: http://ontolog.cim3.net/mailman/listinfo/oor-forum/
    Shared Files: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OOR/
    Wiki: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OpenOntologyRepository





_________________________________________________________________
Message Archives: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/oor-forum/
Subscribe: mailto:oor-forum-join@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Config/Unsubscribe: http://ontolog.cim3.net/mailman/listinfo/oor-forum/
Shared Files: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OOR/
Wiki: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OpenOntologyRepository






 
_________________________________________________________________
Message Archives: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/oor-forum/  
Subscribe: mailto:oor-forum-join@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Config/Unsubscribe: http://ontolog.cim3.net/mailman/listinfo/oor-forum/  
Shared Files: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OOR/ 
Wiki: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OpenOntologyRepository 

 


_________________________________________________________________
Message Archives: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/oor-forum/  
Subscribe: mailto:oor-forum-join@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Config/Unsubscribe: http://ontolog.cim3.net/mailman/listinfo/oor-forum/  
Shared Files: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OOR/ 
Wiki: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OpenOntologyRepository     (01)
<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>