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1 Scholarly Ontologies Project www.kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/scholonto Knowledge Media Institute The Open University Hobby: 1998-2000 EPSRC: 2001-2004 PI: Simon Buckingham Shum Co-I’s: John Domingue, Enrico Motta RF’s: Gary Li, Victoria Uren PhD’s: Clara Mancini, Bertrand Sereno
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2 documents Research is interesting because of incomplete, conflicting, conceptual structures… metadata/ontologies citation link services interpretations?
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3 interpretations? Significance = Connection Err, if we could all just use my master ontology… Whose connections?… …Whose link types?
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4 ? Claims Counterclaims Emergent domain model grounded in perspectives
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5 Claims Counterclaims Emergent domain model grounded in perspectives
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6 5 Relational Types & examples
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7 Structure of a Claim
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8 A Set of Concepts, Claims, Objects
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9 ScholOnto in a nutshell… Literatures as networks of concepts… …which are grounded in documents Connections between nodes are claims Core set of connection types, which can be expressed in discipline-specific dialects Multiple claim structures from diverse perspectives A server mediates and manages the claims: Claim making (manual/semi-auto) tools An evolving network reflecting a community’s interpretation of its concepts Innovative digital library services: agents, visualizations…
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10 New kinds of scientometrics? Impact (semantically typed citations) Schools of thought (clusters of concepts sharing a foundation) Intellectual lineage/evidence (supportive and challenging connections) Consistency (structural integrity)
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11 documents ScholOnto meets OpCit (& other linking services) ? metadata/ontologies citation link services interpretations Eprint server OpCit et al. + other semantic web stuff ScholOnto Academic Press / OAI servers…
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12 Status Ontology v1 defined Claimaker v1 ~implemented ~3000 Academic Press papers imported Several micro-literatures modelled Now populating database with claims to evaluate: Ontology Usability Intuitions about what reasoning services, agents and visualizations are required
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13 Demo…
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