Lin, Yu-wei, Poschen, Meik, Procter, Rob, Kola, Jay, Job, Dominic, Harris, Jonathan, Randall, Dave, Sharrock, Wes, Ure, Jenny and Lawrie, Stephen (2008) Ontology building as a social-technical process : a case study. In: Oxford e-Research Conference, Oxford, UK, 11-13 Sep 2008 pp. 1-10.

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Abstract

Recently, ontologies have gained popularity as the means of achieving syntactic and semantic interoperability of data. Ontologies provide machine-readable representations of the elements and relationships between elements within a domain of knowledge. In the bioinformatics community, ontologies have already been successfully used for integrating and standardizing experimental data from sources in the genetic, cognitive and neuroanatomical knowledge domains. The challenges increase, however, when attempting to build ontologies that can be used across different disciplines. This paper, drawn on our experience with the NeuroPsyGrid project, aims to provide a socio-technical account of the challenges of building such an ontology.

Item Type:	Conference Item (Paper)
Subjects:	Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > ZA Information resources
Divisions:	Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Computer Science
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Ontologies (Information retrieval)
Official Date:	2008
Dates:	Date Event 2008 Published
Page Range:	pp. 1-10
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Funder:	Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC)
Conference Paper Type:	Paper
Title of Event:	Oxford e-Research Conference
Type of Event:	Conference
Location of Event:	Oxford, UK
Date(s) of Event:	11-13 Sep 2008
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