Guiding the Evolution of a Multilingual Ontology in a Concrete Setting

Abstract

Abstract. Evolving complex artifacts as multilingual ontologies is a difficult activity demanding for the involvement of different roles and for guidelines to drive and coordinate them. We present the methodology and the underlying tool that have been used in the context of the Organic.Lingua project for the collaborative evolution of the multilingual Organic Agriculture ontology. Findings gathered from a quantitative and a qualitative evaluation of the experience are reported, revealing the usefulness of the methodology used in synergy with the tool.

S-BPM in the Production Industry

“…The Metasonic Suite (https://www.metasonic.de/en) is used for modelling, validating and executing work processes applying the subject-oriented methodology • MoKi-a wiki-based collaborative tool for the enterprise modelling. MoKi (Rospocher et al 2008;Christl et al 2008;Rospocher et al 2009;Ghidini et al 2012) has already been applied to a number of collaborative settings (Casagni et al 2011;Dragoni et al 2013), also in multilingual scenarios (Bosca et al 2014;Dragoni et al 2014a), and for the analysis of business processes (Dragoni et al 2014b;Di Francescomarino et al 2014). MoKi is used for analysing the propagation of workplace changes (including changes related to processes and non-procedural aspects), as well as for supporting discussions, notifications and approvals related to potential workplace improvements Specifically, these technologies should empower workers in Company B's goods-receiving and quality-checking department by allowing them to:…”

People-Centred Production Design

“…The Metasonic Suite (https://www.metasonic.de/en) is used for modelling, validating and executing work processes applying the subject-oriented methodology (Fleischmann et al 2012) • MoKi-a wiki-based collaborative tool for the enterprise modelling. MoKi Christl et al 2008;Rospocher et al 2009;Ghidini et al 2012) has already been applied to a number of collaborative settings (Casagni et al 2011;Dragoni et al 2013), also in multilingual scenarios (Bosca et al 2014;Dragoni et al 2014a), and for the analysis of business processes (Dragoni et al 2014b;Di Francescomarino et al 2014). MoKi is used for analysing the propagation of workplace changes (including changes related to processes and non-procedural aspects), as well as for supporting discussions, notifications and approvals related to potential workplace improvements Specifically, these technologies should empower workers in Company B's goods-receiving and quality-checking department by allowing them to:…”

Supporting ontology adaptation and versioning based on a graph of relevance

“…However, consistency of each version is not addressed in this work, as well as the storage and relevance of versions. Some other works focused on detecting and implementing changes in the framework of an ontology management system (Dragoni, Di Francescomarino, Ghidini, Clemente, & Alonso, 2013;Hartung, Gross, & Rahm, 2012;Keberle, Litvinenko, Gordeyev, & Ermolayev, 2007;Noy & Musen, 2004;Pittet, Nicolle, & Cruz, 2012;Redmond et al, 2008;Santoso, Haw, & Lee, 2010;Xuan, Bellatreche, & Pierra, 2006). Other works focused on the consistency and quality issues during the evolution process (Copeland, Gonc alves, Parsia, Sattler, & Stevens, 2013;Djedidi & Aufaure, 2010;Gonc alves, Parsia, & Sattler, 2011;Haase & Stojanovic, 2005;Konev, Walther, & Wolter, 2008;Luong & Dieng-Kuntz, 2007) or used ontology versioning to support different viewpoints and contexts (Grandi, 2013;Zablith, D'Aquin, Sabou, & Motta, 2010;Zurawski, 2006).…”