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Towards an Infrastructure for Knowledge Management within
European Ethics: Methodologies for Semantic Integration of Heterogeneous
Resources
Report for the Feasibility Study for an Advanced Systematic Documentation,
Information and Communication Tool in the Field of Ethical Issues in Science,
Research and Technology (FASTER)
Work Package 5B: Communication Links
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Food and Agricultural Organization
Library and Documentation Systems Division
WAICENT/FAOINFO Dissemination Management Branch
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Participants Work Package 5 B - Contact Information
Food and Agricultural Organization
Library and
Documentation Systems Division
WAICENT/FAOINFO Dissemination Management
Branch
viale delle Terme di Caracalla
Rome 00100
ITALY
Johannes Keizer
[email protected]
Anita Liang
[email protected]
Contributors
Gauri Salokhe
Margherita Sini
Abstract
As with many domains, information retrieval and knowledge
management (IR/KM) in ethics suffers from the problems of semantic
heterogeneity, making it difficult for providers to disseminate their services
effectively and for users to retrieve the information they need. An analysis was
conducted of resources provided by two hundred or so information services within
the domain of ethics as it applies to issues in science, technology, and
research in a European context. Based on this analysis, this paper proposes a)
an application profile for dealing with the problem of heterogeneity originating
from differences in terminologies, domain coverage, and domain modelling, and b)
a root ontology based on the application profile which can serve as a basis for
extending knowledge of the domain.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
SEMANTIC WEB
The XML layer: Content of a
resource
Granularity
The RDF layer: Metadata of a
resource
The Ontology layer: Modelling the
domain
METHODOLOGIES FOR SEMANTIC
INTEGRATION
Ethics Application
Profile
Definition and rationale
Methodology for the development of a
European Ethics application profile (EEAP)
Ethics Application
Ontology
Definition and rationale
Mapping the application profile to the
application ontology
The ongoing development of the
EEAO
Methodology for
ontology-building
SCENARIOS: RELATING ONTOLOGIES AND
DATA
Mediated (centralized) v. federated
multi-host (distributed) architecture
Three scenarios
The AO and unindexed structured
data
The SO and unstructured
data
The AO + one or more
thesauri
The AO + sub-ontology
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES