Bottom-up ontology building for domains without existing standards

Chong, Steven S.; Rodenhausen, Thomas; Xu, Dongfang; Cui, Hong; Heidorn, Bryan

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Title

Bottom-up ontology building for domains without existing standards

Author(s)

• Chong, Steven S.
• Rodenhausen, Thomas
• Xu, Dongfang
• Cui, Hong
• Heidorn, Bryan

Issue Date

2017

Keyword(s)

• User-centered design
• Ontology
• Phenotypic character
• User interface
• User experiment

Abstract

Phenotypes are physical characteristics of organisms and are expressed with entities and qualities. Phenotypic characters are important for describing species, studying organismal function and understanding organismal evolution. However, existing phenotype descriptions are not amenable to computation and terms should be mapped to ontologies to disambiguate similar and dissimilar concepts. We discuss issues we encountered when building an ontology with a bottom-up approach. We also describe an upcoming user study to compare expert user performance on existing ontology building software with another system enhanced with features informed by our prior work. By combining a bottom-up ontology building approach with user studies guiding the design of low-barrier ontology building environments, ontology construction will become easier for domain experts and will encourage additional participation in the process, leading to more complete ontologies and greater use of ontologies in research data management.

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2017 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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Copyright 2017 Steven S. Chong, Thomas Rodenhausen, Dongfang Xu, Hong Cui, and Bryan Heidorn

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