Andreas Schmidt, Tobias Ley, Simone Braun
Workshop:
Reflections on
knowledge modelling
as a maturing and
g
learning process
http://mature-ip.eu
andreas.schmidt@fzi.de EATEL Summer School 2008
tley@know-center.at Ohrid,
Ohrid Macedonia
simone.braun@fzi.de June 2008

Workshop Organizers
Andreas Schmidt
A d S h idt
• Department Manager at FZI Research Center for Information
Technologies in Karlsruhe, Germany (http://www.fzi.de)
• R
Responsible f th competence area “K
ibl for the t “Knowledge&Learning”
l d &L i ”
• Senior Researcher and scientific coordinator of MATURE IP
(http://mature-ip.eu)
Simone B
Si Braun
• Research associate within competence areas
“Knowledge&Learning” and “Semantic Technologies” at FZI in
Karlsruhe,
Karlsruhe Germany
• Working in German BMBF project “Im Wissensnetz” and MATURE IP
Tobias Ley
• D
Deputy D
t Department M
t t Manager „Knowledge S i “ at K
K l d Services“ t Know-
Center Graz, Austria (http://www.know-center.at)
• Senior Researcher and deputy coordinator of APOSDLE IP
(http://www.aposdle.org)
(http://www aposdle org)
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Workshop Agenda
Introducing the Workshop: Topic, Goals and
d h k h l d
Participants (15’)
Introducing Tool:
I t d i a T l SOBOLEO (10’)
Hands-on Phase 1: Individual & collaborative tagging
(45 )
(45’)
Group Building (10’)
Coffee Break
Hands-on Phase 2: Consolidation & New Resources (50’)
Reflection Phase (50’)
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Widening your perspective
gy p p
on learning
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Document Learning Courses/
Communication Collaboration collections Objects Curricula
Emergence Distribution
Distrib tion in Formali-
Formali Ad-Hoc-
Ad Hoc Standardi-
Standardi
of ideas Communities zation Training zation
shared reports
vocabulary
y p
best practices standard
new ideas text b k
book
Case studies
communities Lessons Learnt
Informal Learning Formal learning
Expert Novice

Design processes as learning processes
Design processes h
have to b understood as l
be d d learning
processes
• Interwoven modelling & application processes
(often work-integrated)
• Deepening the understanding along the modeling process
• Increasing level of formalization
• Should be subject to continuous improvement processes
Specializations
l
• task-embedded ontology engineering („ontology maturing“)
• distributed software engineering in complex domains
• reusability of software components
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Goals of the Workshop
Experience a ddistributed k
b d knowledge modelling process
l d d ll
as a learning process
Experience knowledge maturing i a collaborative
E i k l d t i in ll b ti
tagging environment
Get to know a tool for supporting knowledge maturing
Identify opportunities and pitfalls of knowledge
maturing
Identify requirements for the design of tools,
processes, and environments
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The
SOBOLEO
System
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Overview
SOBOLEO – S i l B k
Social Bookmarking and Li ht i ht
ki d Lightweight
Engineering of Ontologies
SOBOLEO is:
• a tool for editing ontologies
• a tool for collecting and annotating web resources as bookmarks
• collaboratively usable
• web based accessible:
http://soboleo.fzi.de:8080/webPortal
http://soboleo fzi de:8080/webPortal
Username: FirstnameLastname Password: eatel08
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Purpose
Supporting k
knowledge workers
l d k
working together in one domain
in developing a shared ontology &
a shared index of relevant web resources
organized with this ontology
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Procedure
1. User f d a new web resource she wants to add to the
finds b h dd h
shared index
2. Annotating with concepts from the ontology or
arbitrary tags
3. Gathering arbitrary tags as “prototypical concepts” for
g y g p yp p
later consolidation and placement
4. Structuring concepts with taxonomic relations
according to the SKOS Core Vocabulary
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Features
Creating, maintaining and extending
d d
an ontology
Collecting, sharing and organizing
bookmarks
Annotating bookmarks with concepts
g p
from the ontology for easier
organization
Searching and retrieving annotated
documents and people b d on th
d t d l based the
ontology as background knowledge 12
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Let‘s use SOBOLEO
http://soboleo.fzi.de:8080/webPortal
Login with SurnameLastname
Password: eatel08
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Main Parts
a) „Search“
h“ b)
b „Browse“ c) „Annotate“
“ “ d)„Edit“
d d “
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Main Part: Annotate
Collecting and annotating
ll d
the current web page from
within the browser with a
popup window
As bookmarklet
Including full text content
of the web page
New tags are automatically
added to the ontology
aufgenommen
f
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Main Part: Edit
Collaborative real time Aj editor f SKOS ontologies
C ll b i l i Ajax di for l i
Tracking changes and chatting
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Main Part: Browse
Browsing the ontology and bookmark collection
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Main Part: Search
Front page with i
F i h input fi ld to search within the shared i d
field h i hi h h d index
PeopleSearch: simple search for people related to a topic
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Let‘s start knowledge maturing!
http://soboleo.fzi.de:8080/webPortal
Login with FirstnameLastname
Password: eatel08
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Hands on
Hands-on
Phases
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Phase 1: Individual & Collaborative Tagging
Time: 40’
’
Resources to work with
• h
http://www.elearningpapers.eu/
// l i /
• Clusters as a seed concepts
To Dos
• Read and tag papers according to your interests in SOBOLEO
• Introduce new tags as you see fit
• Watch what others are doing
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Group Building
Time: 10’
’
Resources to work with
• none
To Dos
• You will have to clean up your mess (=consolidate) in the next
( consolidate)
phase
• Form groups of 3-5 persons according to thematic interests
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Phase 2: Consolidation & New Resources
Time: 50’
Ti
Resources to work with
• Tagged resources and concepts in SOBOLEO, flipchart & cards
SOBOLEO
(use whatever you need)
• Select a set of new papers you have personally bookmarked
(not in SOBOLEO)
To Dos
• Try to arrive at a shared and consolidated conceptualization
y p
(face to face or online) and input it into SOBOLEO
• Tag your selected new papers in SOBOLEO
• Check how the shared conceptualization matches these
resources
• Keep discussing and consolidating while adding new resources
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Reflection
Phase
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Questions to be answered
Report on Activities
• A report of what happened in the groups
• Quickly presenting and comparing the resulting
conceptualizations
Opportunities and Pitfalls
pp
• Any positive remarks about the process?
• Any surprising things? Any ideas you did not have before?
• Any negative remarks about the process? Any barriers?
Improvements and Requirements
• A ideas, requirements f tools and services?
Any id i for l d i ?
• Any ideas, requirements for social processes?
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