Wick Project Meeting Notes
[16 October 2003]
Location: Wendy's Office
Present:
- Les Car
- Gary Wills
- Arouna Woukeu
- Discussion
Following on from the previous discussion (03 October 2003) we need to make clear what we mean by a Document Ontology.
A document is to do with protocol and information exchange. For example the EPSRC have a specification for a project proposal, you in turn fulfil this specification by returning a document.
A document is not just words with style/formatting, a document has words that carry knowledge (meaning). So a document can be viewed as a publication object, which is a carrier of knowledge.
From a WICK perspective, documents carry knowledge and makes reference to knowledge we have previously formally modelled and is held in other computer systems. A document contains more that data it has prose.
By contrast, in the document management production world, a document consists of structure and form, data/structure which can subsequently be interpreted with implicit stylistic attributes (you can check features via spreadsheet).
Let us look at a research proposal for a hypertext project. We require a:
- Document ontology.
- Hypertext Ontology
- Proposal Ontology, that will include the concepts of Principle Investigators, Work plans, Funding, dissemination.
- Research Ontology similar to the AKT ontology, which tells you about people, project, publications, etc.
For example let us examine a research proposal for Qusi Interactive Document System (QuIDS). We require:
- Document ontology:- XML-FO and Dublin Core, etc
- Proposal Ontology. This is a general proposal ontology can cover EU projects, NSF, local government grants, membership of societies, etc. It covers the purpose/genre/ raison d’etre/ why/question for which the document. For the EPSRC consists of a specification of what a project proposal should look like and a form.
- Research Ontology, similar to AKT
- Subject Ontology can use ACM classification. Hypermedia which has special, mix reality hypermedia, etc.
- Narrative, we need to understand this better.
- Project Ontology
The first thing the EPSRC form requires is form the Institution’s Name, and later the PI. The constraints here are that the person must be o that Institution, and of n appropriate grade (informally an academic).
EPSRC Form deconstructed should give us a rough proposal ontology. The guidelines should then supply the constraints.
Hypothesis: Can we use the form as the biases of the constructs/requirements expresses in the guidelines for the Case for Support.
For Example:
Part 1
- Bullet point 1:Literature review, the knowledge can come from ontologies c and d. We would need agent technology to workout significance of the work. We will need to be able to write queries to express the domain: Individual, lab/institution /country/collaboration/global all in the constraints of funding and collaboration. Is this a new knowledge service for AKT – next COP?)
- Bullet 2: another Bloom agent, evaluating outcomes of products
- Bullet 3; CV trawl- relevant papers and programs
- Bullet 4: Dynamic CV.
Part 2.
- Bullet point 1: Overall aims and individual measurable objectives. Requires a comparison of other projects.
- The program Objectives requires new created knowledge; expand the guidelines plus example from (non) funded projects. Requires a synthesis agent.
To Do
- Ask Nick G about developing the ontology in OWL.
- Talk to EPSRC reference the development of the new form (why was it changed)
- Papers!!!!
- WWW- Good tool some background (14 November)
- JODI: Special Issue on Information Design Models and Processes (15 December)
- HT – Semantic Web and Tool (4 February, early bird)
- Web Eng Conference – Focus on Engineering (15 February)
- Web Eng Journal
- PAKM – Rational and tool