The goal of the Ontology Summit 2010 was to address the current shortage of persons with ontology expertise by developing a strategy for the education of ontologists. To achieve this goal we studied how ontologists are currently trained, the requirements identified by organizations that hire ontologists, and developments that might impact the training of ontologists in the future. We developed ...

Ontology Summarization has been found useful to facilitate ontology engineering tasks in a number of different ways. Recently, it has been recognised as a means to facilitate ontology understanding and then support tasks like ontology reuse in ontology construction. Among the works in literature, not only distinctive methods are used to summarize ontology, also different measures are deployed t...

The Drosophila anatomy ontology (DAO) defines the broad anatomy of the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster, a genetic model organism. It contains over 8700 classes, with close to half of these corresponding to neuroanatomical terms. We are systematically reviewing the DAO classes, improving the textual information and classification. This includes adding definitions, comments and synonyms, as well...

Ontology is traditionally conceived as the investigation of what there is or, a bit more precisely, the attempt to determine the most basic and general ways of being. This endeavor typically entails the project of articulating the fundamental kinds of beings, frequently with the aim of sorting them into a taxonomic order (where some kinds are superordinate or structure the others).1 The aim of ...

and summary of doctoral dissertation Ontology Adaptation for the Distributed Control Systems Management and Integration Purposes

Understanding which ontology characteristics can predict a “good” quality ontology, is a core and ongoing task in the Semantic Web. In this paper, we provide our findings on which structural ontology characteristics are usually observed in high-quality ontologies. We obtain these findings through a taskbased evaluation, where the task is the assessment of the correctness of semantic relations. ...

The degree to which extrinsic factors influence migration chronology in North American waterfowl has not been quantified, particularly for dabbling ducks. Previous studies have examined waterfowl migration using various methods, however, quantitative approaches to define avian migration chronology over broad spatio-temporal scales are limited, and the implications for using different approaches...

Nowadays, the configuration of the world economy faces a deep productivetechnological reorganization, which main feature is the appearance on the scene of the emerging economies of the semi-periphery (Brazil, Russia, India, China, among others). The rise of these economies should result in the medium and long term in a reset level of the International Division of Labor and the relationship "cor...

Ontology versions are periodically released to ensure their usefulness and reliability over time. This potentially impacts dependent artefacts such as mappings and annotations. To deal with this issue requires to finely characterize ontology entities’ changes between ontology versions. This article proposes to identify change patterns at attribute values when an ontology evolves, to track textu...