Chapter 4: Terminology - KGConf/BookClub-OntologyEngineering GitHub Wiki

Questions

[Mel McCrea] Could you develop a bit more about figure 4.1, what are specific tasks of the ontologist in the methodology for development? What are good skills to have and to develop as the ontology progresses?

[Ann Clark] Is business value part of the scope/goals mentioned in 4.2 laying the groundwork? Do you have examples of tying use cases to business value for ontologies?

Meeting Minutes

• In practice, you often play both the role of the oncologist and the terminologist.
• Even though you might have access to an NLP expert extracting the terms for you, the terminologist work is to make sure and define how those terms align with the objectives.
• Termninologists will often work with spreadsheets rather than with a modelling tool like Protégé (as for the oncologists).
• As a terminologist, it is good to:
  • have some knowledge about library theory
  • focus on details
  • have some communication skills
• The oncologist role is to focus on modelling, whereas the terminologist has more of a social role and focuses on term extraction and definition.
• The terminologist focuses on term extraction for both concepts and relationships. From the terminologist point of view, they should be treated the same way, i.e., defining what they are, what they mean etc.
• A good number of experts to have in a meeting is between 5 and 6 (SMEs, business analysts, ontologists, terminologists)
• "Whatever role I am missing, I tend to turn into that role"
• You usually have a limited amount of time with SMEs, you want to use it wisely
  • Use the "good enough" SME for most of the work and the top SME for the tricky questions
• Getting access to SMEs might sometimes be easy, then the real challenge is to make them understand each other.

Links shared during the session:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_architecture
• https://github.com/edmcouncil/
• https://www.businessarchitectureguild.org/
• http://isbi.aau.at/ontodebug/