Collaborative Ontology Development
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Collaborative Ontology Development has two main components:
(A) Involving collaborations between subject matter experts to agree on knowledge, e.g., what is a gene? what are it's properties? (B) Collaborations across informaticians and modelers, e.g., should information related to a gene be represented as a class or as a property of a person? Is it a subclass of Nucleus component? Is the class gene defined in ontology O1 the same or different as class gene defined in ontology O2...
The goal should be to create collaboration processes and toolkits to enable subject matter experts, without any knowledge of computer science or informatics to drive the process of ontology creation.
(A) involves collaborative discussions on wikis, e-rooms, across social networks. The challenge is to design efficient group
communication structures to enable the opinion aggregation using meta-ranking, rank aggregation, web of trust, etc., meaning negotiation, etc.
(B) involves coming up with best practices to use SW specifications to represent different types of knowledge.
The problem with (A) is that it coud get unnecessarily escoteric... We need to figure out and configure wikis that support (A), (B) and the transition from (A) to (B)...
Some random thoughts at 10pm on a weekday night.... Does this make sense?