by Dave McComb | Nov 8, 2012 | The Whiteboard
This is related both to scope and to design. An ontology is elegant if it has the fewest possible concepts to cover the required scope with minimal redundancy and complexity. Whereas completeness is about making sure enough is in the ontology, elegance is about making...
by Dave McComb | Nov 6, 2012 | The Whiteboard
This is a complex and multi-faceted issue. The answer depends on the audience, who have varying degrees of a) knowledge in the domain, b) technical background, c) awareness of what the ontology is for and d) need to directly work with the ontology. For everyone, and...
by Dave McComb | Nov 1, 2012 | The Whiteboard
Great question. This is an ongoing challenge because different parts of a company use terms differently. One rule of thumb is to avoid using terms that have many different meanings across the company – this will just cause confusion. Things can be set up so that local...
by Dave McComb | Oct 31, 2012 | The Whiteboard
I will answer this in the context of OWL ontologies where the errors are found using Hermit or Fact++ as the inference engine. I happen to use Protégé, but other ontology tools have similar functionality. There are a few cases. First, if the ontology is inconsistent,...
by Dave McComb | Oct 29, 2012 | The Whiteboard
Yes. Check out http://oeg-lia3.dia.fi.upm.es/oops/. The authors looked through the literature and discovered 29 common pitfalls that arise when building ontologies. Code has been written to automatically find 21 of the 29 pitfalls. Try it out and give the authors...
