Hi Helen:
Exactly!
In my work, primarily as a management analyst, I use
what I'm calling a "general ontology" within this forum to provide (through
the use of my GO metaschema/ontology, an corresponding methodology to populate
and manage that metaschema, and a commercial knowledge-modeling and management
technology that fits my technical requirements) a multidimensional (not just
hierarchical) classification of the subjects being managed by my client
enterprises. My approach provides what has been called a
“common-ground”, “backplane”, “core”, “hub”, etc., object-relational database
application that can integrate the subjects of the enterprise into a
whole-enterprise “intelligence base”.
The "hierarchical facets" (i.e., taxonomies) I use are
deep trees of inventoried classes/subclasses/instances
of:
·
Locations (e.g., Physical,
virtual, conceptual),
·
Organizations (e.g., government,
commercial, private),
·
organization units (e.g., staff
offices, program offices, project offices, teams, positions, roles),
·
functions (e.g., executive,
production, support/resource),
·
processes (e.g., natural, mental,
social, mechanical, electrical, electronic, computer),
·
resources (e.g.,
life-forms/persons, intelligence/knowledge/public/encyclopedia, funds, skills,
materiel/equipment/IT, facilities/wiring-closets,
services/Internet/web-hosting, space/office/staff-worker,
energy/electrical/kilowatt-hours, and time/event/schedule/duration serving
roles as inputs, controls, outputs, or mechanism (ICOM) to processes),
·
missions (e.g., collections of
requirements identifying the quantity, quality, schedule, and life-cycle state
of resources needed to fulfill a combination of
resource-role/process/function/organization-unit/organization/location needs
at various stages of a process).
The navigation axes (i.e., relation
types) I use are:
·
categorization of a subject
(i.e., showing up and down traversal of the above hierarchical (i.e.,
class/subclass/instance) facets/taxonomies showing conceptual relations),
·
containment of a subject (i.e.,
showing container/component relations in Concept, Space (i.e., matter and/or
energy, 3D), Time, and Space-Time (i.e., 4D) (i.e., CSTS-T)
·
sequence of a subject (i.e.,
showing predecessor/successor relations in CSTS-T, with attributes defining
the role (e.g., customer, supplier) that the subject plays in a
location/organization/organization-unit/function/process/resource/mission
value chain)
·
change of a subject (i.e.,
showing prior-state/current-state/possible-future-state relations in
CSTS-T)
·
variance from a subject (i.e.,
basis/derivation relations in CSTS-T)
·
equivalence between subjects
(i.e., full, partial, or possible equivalence subject relations in CSTS-T,
useful for thesauri functionality, identifying/resolving ambiguity of meaning,
and for physical and knowledge inventory management)
·
reference about subject (i.e.,
referrals of one subject to another, as concepts)
Roy
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Interesting that you should mention that Roy! Yesterday I was
talking
to a customer about faceted navigation - more
structure, metadata, and
taxonomies (or ontology if logic is included :0), but
it seems best
suited for domain applications or collections,
homogenous sets of
entities, possibly NOT a hierarchy, but with the
purpose of reflecting
the scope and subject of a classification system. It
offers support for
user tasks and analysis.
Antoinette Arsic
Sr. Information Systems
Engineer
The MITRE Corporation
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Subject: [ontac-forum] FW: [facetedclassification]
Announcing SKOS Core
2ndPublic Working Drafts
FYI:
For those following the "classification" thread within
this forum, the
following email might provide useful and interesting
content.
My suggested General Ontology approach uses "faceted
classification"
techniques to define the context of a
subject.
Roy
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(Alistair)
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 5:30
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To: Faceted
Classification
Subject: [facetedclassification] Announcing SKOS Core
2nd Public
Working
Drafts
W3C Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment
Working Group
We are pleased to announce the publication of the
following technical
reports as
second W3C Public Working
Drafts:
SKOS Core Guide
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-skos-core-guide-20051102/
SKOS Core Vocabulary
Specification
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-skos-core-spec-20051102/
For a summary of revisions since first Working Draft
publication see:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-skos-core-spec-20051102/#secchanges
SKOS Core is a simple, flexible and extensible
language for expressing
in a
machine-understandable form the structure and content
of concept
schemes
such as
thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading
lists, taxonomies,
'folksonomies', other types of controlled vocabulary,
and also concept
schemes
embedded in glossaries and
terminologies.
For links to tutorials, presentations, development
information, version
history,
translations, proposals, datasets and more see the
SKOS Core home page:
http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core/
The SKOS Core Vocabulary is an application of the
Resource Description
Framework
(RDF). Using RDF allows data to be linked to
and/or merged with other
data.
In
practice, this means that distributed sources of data
can be
meaningfully
composed and integrated.
For more information about RDF and related
specifications, see the
Semantic
Web
Activity home page:
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
The 'SKOS Core Guide' is a guide to the recommended
usage of the SKOS
Core
Vocabulary, for readers who already have a basic
understanding of RDF
concepts.
The 'SKOS Core Vocabulary Specification' gives a
reference-style
overview of
the
SKOS Core Vocabulary, and describes policies for
ownership, naming,
persistence
and change management.
These reports are second public Working Drafts, and
are work in
progress.
We
ask at this stage for feedback from anyone with a
potential interest in
using
these specifications, or with relevant
expertise. Please send comments
and
suggestions on these drafts to public-esw-thes@xxxxxx
and begin the
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of the message with 'comment:'. If possible,
please send comments
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31st
January 2006.
The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working
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public, consensus-driven design environment for SKOS
Core, and to this
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particular drawing
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