MATURE: a dynamic perspective on ontologies

Simone Braun

FZI Research Center for Information Technologies

http://mature-ip.eu OntoContent-QSI Workshop 2008November 10, 2008

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FP7 EU Integrated Project (04/08 – 03/12)

Coordinator

Research & Technology Partners

Application Partners

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Motivation

Agility of enterprises as a key success factor requires• Leveraging the employees‘ creativity and hands-on experience• Improving the sharing of knowledge within and across company

borders• Support with a new form of organizational guidance

Instead of top-down approaches we need a balance oftop-down and bottom-up developments for learningsupport• Bring together the efficiency of organizations and the

engagement and user empowerment

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Knowledge Maturing Process Model

Based on [Schmidt, 2005] and [Maier & Schmidt, 2007]

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Knowledge Maturing Process Model

New ideas are developed by individualsFrom personal experiences or in highly informal discussions

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Knowledge Maturing Process Model

Exchange of ideas & personal experiencesDevelopment of common terminology; e.g. in discussion forum entries or wikis

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Knowledge Maturing Process Model

Purpose-driven structured documents are created

e.g. project reports or process models

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Knowledge Maturing Process Model

Pedagogical preparation of the material for broader dissemination

e.g. service instructions or manuals

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Knowledge Maturing Process Model

Individual learning objects are put together to cover broader subject area

Subject area becomes teachable to novices

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Different Types of Knowledge

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Approach

More participation!• Knowledge maturing is an active & collaborative process• Reduce motivational, conceptual & technical barriers

Management & guidance as• „providing the environment & framework“• „gardening“

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Example: Competence Ontology Development

Employees annotate each other with any topic tagnew topic ideas emerge; e.g. describing recent/specific ones

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Example: Competence Ontology Development

A common topic terminology evolves through the collaborative (re-)usage of the topic tags

Topic tags are defined and refined, useless or incorrect ones are rejected

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Example: Competence Ontology Development

Special community members begin to organize the topic terminology into competencies

Introduction of relations between topic tagso OO-Programming <is superconcept of> Java-Programmingo Java-Programming <is related to> C#-Programming

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Example: Competence Ontology Development

Adding axioms for exploiting relationships for reasoningespecially precise generalisation & composition relationships

o Java Programming <is a> OO Programmingo {Java Programming Expert, AJAX Programming Beginner} <is part of> GWT-

Programming Intermediate

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Tools

Personal learning environments• Bundling of loosely coupled tools & services into flexible tool

boxes that support individual learning• Integration following the mashup paradigm• „personal“ and „social“

Organizational learning environments• Role of gardening• Analysis & visualization• Intervention

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The MATUREVision

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Objectives

an analysis of real-world maturing practices knowledge maturing & development of a reference modelthe methodical conception of tools supporting learningdevelopment of reusable technical servicesthe accompanying, early formative evaluation of approaches (concepts, design studies, prototypes) with endusers

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