1. Can Knowledge about Community Resilience be Organized by Means of Ontological Modeling? Sarah Newell Wojtek Michalowski Davood Astaraky Telfer School of Management Tracey O’Sullivan Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences University of Ottawa

2. Outline  Background  Research Hypothesis  Method  Ontology Study Method  Visualizing the Ontology  Expected Results  Conclusions/Implications

3. Background  Community Resilience: the ability to resist, absorb, and recover from a disturbance. 1  Many different research approaches have led to a lack of agreement about which are the key elements to focus on when developing interventions. 1 – Norris et al, 2008

4. Research Hypothesis  Systematic representation of the knowledge about community resilience to a disaster will highlight the interdependence of components so their roles can be better understood.

5. Method  The ontology engineering will:  Provide structure  Organize the elements  Tailor to unique community needs

6. Ontology  Structured way of representing knowledge  Concepts and the relationships between them  Study design process Define Knowledge Sources Extract Concepts Develop Ontology EvaluateCase Study

7. Knowledge Extraction Method  Modified from PICO method 1 used by Cochrane Review 2  Adapted for our purposes to include  Concepts, Abstraction Level, Properties (CAP Method) 1 - Higgins & Green, 2011 ; 2 - Cochrane Collaboration, 2013

8. Knowledge Extraction  Review each paragraph individually  Describing content of literature  Community Resilience to a Disaster  Case study or too specific  Describing relationship between concepts

9. Developing the Ontology of Community Resilience  Identify key concepts/elements  Define each term or concept  Identify shared characteristics to form hierarchy  Identify appropriate superconcepts and subconcepts based on these characteristics  Develop relationships between hierarchies

10. Ontology Visualized

11. Conclusions/Implications  This ontology is a way of representing the current knowledge.  Future research can benefit from identifying gaps that exist in the ontology.  Design of interventions can benefit from having knowledge represented in a systematic manner.

12. Can Knowledge about Community Resilience be Organized by Means of Ontological Modeling? Contact Information: Sarah Newell University of Ottawa snewe094@uottawa.com www.telfer.uOttawa.ca THANK YOU