Towards Facilitated Reuse of Ontology Results from European Research Projects: a Case Study
ISBN
978-0-9553159-2-3
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2008-06-09
Author(s)
Fitterer, René
;
Greiner, Ulrike
;
Stroh, Florian
Editor(s)
Golden, Willie
Acton, T.
Conboy, K.
van der Heijden, H.
Tuuainen, V.
Research Team
IWI1, EIW
Abstract
A significant amount of results have been produced recently in the area of ontology research.Increasingly semantic concepts are applied not only to enable system to system interaction and dataexchange through unambiguous modelling of a certain domain, but also to enable univocalcommunication between human beings working on a certain domain. Reuse of ontology researchresults is however hindered by different underlying meta-models, incompatible formalization and thelimited availability of content. In this paper we therefore analyse issues of reusing ontologies in thecontext of an ongoing research project that aims to develop a methodology for modelling the processlandscape of public administrations in order to measure qualitative and quantitative impacts ofInformation and Communication Technology using semantic models and reasoning functionality.Seven ontology research projects are identified to be relevant candidates for reuse in this project andare categorised by relevant characteristics of reuse. Based on this analysis, a framework that definesrequired information to enable accurate characterisations of ontology research results in an ontologylibrary system is presented. Thereby existing approaches are extended in order to enable discoveryand facilitate reuse of ontology results from European research projects based on structural andcontent-related information.
Language
English
HSG Classification
not classified
Refereed
Yes
Book title
Conference proceedings / ECIS 2008, 16th European Conference on Information Systems
Publisher
National University of Ireland
Start page
1929
End page
1940
Pages
12
Event Title
16th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2008
Event Location
Galway, Ireland
Event Date
09.-11.06.2008
Official URL
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
214211