1. Mind the Gap!
Transcending the Tunnel View on Ontology Engineering
Pieter De Leenheer
Stijn Christiaens
Pragmatic Web 2007 (Tilburg, NL)

2. Realistic Scenario:
http://www.codrive.org/
ONTOLOGY
Job Provider
(Industry)
crystalise
competency
product
job
Public Employment skill
workflow
Agencies
Educational Institutes
http://cvc.ehb.be/PoCeHRMOM/Frameset.htm http://www.prolixproject.org/

3. Competency Map
HR-XML consortium: “an RCD is a
specific, dentifiable, definable, and
measurable knowledge, skill, ability and/or other
deployment-related characteristic (e.g. attitude,
behavior, physical ability) which a human resource
may possess and which is necessary for, or
material to, the performance of an activity
within a specific business context.”

4. The Gap
delivery#1 delivery#2
delivery msg
what is delivery ?
delivery is a type of educational task

5. Towards Community-based Evolution

6. Requirements for Semiotics Engineering
• Constructive methodology
• Variability and reusability
• Application-specific Contextualisation
• Flexible Operationalisation

7. SOCIALISATION
delivery#1 delivery#2
delivery msg
what is delivery ?
delivery is a type of educational task
EXTERNALISATION
/
INTERNALISATION
individual mental models
community-shared models
COMBINATION

8. Lexon building blocks
Context
Role Co-role
! = university
Jury Thesis
evaluates / evaluated by
Head-term Tail-term

9. DOGMA Layers
Reusable Lexon (Domain- specific)
Applications
Base Base Commitment Layer
Jury Thesis
Person Name Person Name
Person Car
Person Name Person Name
Person Name Person Name
Person Name Person Name
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Man Woman
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Person PersonPerson NameName Person PersonPerson NameNameName
Person Name NameName
PersonPerson PersonPerson NameNameName
Person Name NameName Person
PersonPerson PersonPerson NameNameName
Person Name Person
Person Name Person Name
Lorem Dotis
PersonPerson NameNameName Person PersonPerson NameNameName
Person
Person Name Person Name
PersonPerson NameNameName Person PersonPerson NameNameName
Person
Person Name Person Name
PersonPerson NameName Person PersonPerson NameNameName
Person Name NameName
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Person Name NameName Person
Person Name Person Name
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Person Name NameName Person
Person Name Person Name
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Person Name NameName Person
Person Name Person Name
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Person Name NameName Person
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Person Name Name Person Name Name
PersonPerson PersonPerson NameNameName
Person Name NameName Person
Person Person
Person Name Person Name
Ipsum Thesis
PersonPerson PersonPerson NameNameName
Person NameName NameNameName Person
Name Person
Person Person NameName NameNameName
Person PersonPerson PersonPerson
Person Person
Person Name Person Name
Person Name Person Name
PersonPerson NameNameName PersonPerson NameNameName
Person NameNameName NameNameName Person
Person Person NameNameName NameNameName
Person Person
Person Person
PersonPerson PersonPerson
Person Person Person Person
Person NameNameName NameName Person NameNameName NameNameDrink
Person Person
Person Person
Address PersonCoffee
Person Person
Person NameNameName NameName Person NameNameName NameName
Person Person
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Person NameName Name Person Person
Person Person NameName Person Person
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Person Name Person Person
Person NameNameNameName NameName
Person NameNameName Name Person
PersonPerson Person Person Name Person Person
Person Car Name Name Person Man
Person NameNameNameName Name
Person NameNameName Name Person Person
PersonPerson Woman
Person Name Person Person
Person Person NameNameNameName Name
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Person Name Person Person
Person Person NameNameNameName Name
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Person Name Person Person
Person Person NameNameNameName Name
Person NameNameName Name Person
PersonPerson Person
Person Name Person Person
Person Person NameNameNameName Name
Person NameNameName Person Jury Thesis
PersonPerson Person
Person Person Name Person
Person NameNameNameNameName Name Person Person NameNameNameNameName Name
Person
PersonPersonPerson PersonPerson
Person Person
Person NameNameNameNameNameMouse Person Person NameNameNameNameName Wine
Person
PersonPersonPerson PersonPersonPerson
Person Computer PersonYear
Person NameNameNameNameName Person NameNameNameNameName
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Person NameNameNameNameName Person Person NameNameNameNameName
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Lorem Ipsum
Person Person
Person NameNameNameNameName Person Person NameNameNameNameName
PersonPersonPerson Person Person
Person Person
Person NameNameNameNameName Person Person NameNameNameNameName
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PersonPerson NameNameNameName Person NameNameNameName
Person Person
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Person Person
PersonPersonPerson NameNameNameName Person PersonPerson NameNameNameName Jury Thesis
Person Person
PersonPersonPerson NameNameNameName Person PersonPerson NameNameNameName
Person Person
PersonPersonPerson NameNameNameName Person PersonPerson NameNameNameName
Person Person
PersonPersonEngine NameNameName Car Person PersonAnimal NameNameName Mammal
Person Person
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Person Person
Address NameName Person Person PersonCoffee NameNameDrink
Person Person NameName Person NameName
Person Person
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Jury Soccer
Person Car Person Man
NameName Woman
Person Person Name
Person Name Person Name
Person Name Person Name
Person Name Person Name
Person Name Person Name
Person Name Person Name
Computer Mouse Year Wine
Control Thesis
Jury Person
Party Thesis
“Double articulation principle”

10. Analysing Communication Breakdown
delivery msg
Job Seeker
Employer what is delivery ?
ROOT
delivery is a type of educational task
Process Quality
Educational Task Punctual Competence
Skill Attitude
Deliver

11. Context Dependency Management
GLOSS = quot;a required work
that students must masterquot;
SYNSET= {educational GLOSS = quot;a person who
work} acts and gets things donequot;
SYNSET= {doer, worker}
TEMPLATE
TAXONOMY
exhibiting / exhibited by
ROOT
Educational
Quality
Task
APP
Process Quality
Actor
Actor performed by / performing
Educational Competence
Competence
Task
requiring / required for

12. Sample Conflict (i)
TEMPLATE TEMPLATE
exhibiting / exhibited by exhibiting / exhibited by
Educational Educational
Quality Competence
Task Task
SPE SPE
SPECIALISATION SPECIALISATION
specialiseDifferentia
exhibiting / exhibited by exhibiting / exhibited by
Deliver Skill Deliver Skill
ROOT
changeDifferentiaToSibling
Process Quality
TEMPLATE TEMPLATE
exhibiting / exhibited by exhibiting / exhibited by
Educational Educational
Quality Competence
Task Task
Educational Task Punctual Competence
SPE
SPE
SPECIALISATION SPECIALISATION
exhibiting / exhibited by exhibiting / exhibited by
Skill Attitude
Deliver Punctual Deliver Punctual
Deliver

13. Sample Conflict (ii)
TEMPLATE TEMPLATE
exhibiting / exhibited by exhibiting / exhibited by
Educational Educational
Quality Competence
Task Task
SPE SPE
SPECIALISATION SPECIALISATION
specialiseDifferentia
exhibiting / exhibited by exhibiting / exhibited by
Deliver Skill Deliver Skill
ROOT
Process Quality
changeDifferentiaToSibling Educational Task Punctual Competence
Skill Attitude
Deliver
TEMPLATE TEMPLATE
exhibiting / exhibited by exhibiting / exhibited by
Educational Educational
Quality Competence
Task Task
SPE
SPE
SPECIALISATION SPECIALISATION
exhibiting / exhibited by exhibiting / exhibited by
Deliver Punctual Deliver Punctual

14. DOGMA Studio demo movies
• please visit:
• http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/website/
dogmastudio

15. DOGMA Studio

16. Towards Community-based Evolution of K-IS
1 Communication Analysis
2 Community Modelling
3 Negotiation and Argumentation
4 Knowledge Analysis and Evolution

17. Recommended Reading