Reflections on knowledge modelling as a maturing and learning process

Slide 1: Andreas Schmidt, Tobias Ley, Simone Braun Workshop: Reflections on knowledge modelling as a maturing and learning process http://mature-ip.eu andreas.schmidt@fzi.de EATEL Summer School 2008 tley@know-center.at Ohrid, Macedonia simone.braun@fzi.de June 2008

Slide 2: Workshop Organizers  Andreas Schmidt • Department Manager at FZI Research Center for Information Technologies in Karlsruhe, Germany (http://www.fzi.de) • Responsible for the competence area “Knowledge&Learning” • Senior Researcher and scientific coordinator of MATURE IP ( http://mature-ip.eu)  Simone Braun • Research associate within competence areas “Knowledge&Learning” and “Semantic Technologies” at FZI in Karlsruhe, Germany • Working in German BMBF project “Im Wissensnetz” and MATURE IP  Tobias Ley • Deputy Department Manager „Knowledge Services“ at Know-Center Graz, Austria (http://www.know-center.at) • Senior Researcher and deputy coordinator of APOSDLE IP ( http://www.aposdle.org) MATURE - Continuous Social Learning in Knowledge Networks 2

Slide 3: Workshop Agenda  Introducing the Workshop: Topic, Goals and Participants (15’)  Introducing a Tool: SOBOLEO (10’)  Hands-on Phase 1: Individual & collaborative tagging (45’)  Group Building (10’)  Coffee Break  Hands-on Phase 2: Consolidation & New Resources (50’)  Reflection Phase (50’) 3

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Slide 5: Document Learning Courses/ Communication Collaboration collections Objects Curricula Emergence Distribution in Formali- Ad-Hoc- Standardi- of ideas Communities zation Training zation shared reports vocabulary best practices standard new ideas text book Case studies communities Lessons Learnt Informal Learning Formal learning Expert Novice

Slide 6: Design processes as learning processes  Design processes have to be understood as 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 • task-embedded ontology engineering („ontology maturing“) • distributed software engineering in complex domains • reusability of software components MATURE - Continuous Social Learning in Knowledge Networks 6

Slide 7: Goals of the Workshop  Experience a distributed knowledge modelling process as a learning process  Experience knowledge maturing in a collaborative 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 7

Slide 8: The SOBOLEO System MATURE - Continuous Social Learning in Knowledge Networks 8

Slide 9: Overview  SOBOLEO – Social Bookmarking and 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 Username: FirstnameLastname Password: eatel08 99

Slide 10: Purpose  Supporting knowledge workers  working together in one domain  in developing a shared ontology &  a shared index of relevant web resources  organized with this ontology 10 10

Slide 11: Procedure 1. User finds a new web resource she wants to add to the shared index 2. Annotating with concepts from the ontology or arbitrary tags 4. Gathering arbitrary tags as “prototypical concepts” for later consolidation and placement 6. Structuring concepts with taxonomic relations according to the SKOS Core Vocabulary 11 11

Slide 12: Main Parts  a) „Search“ b) „Browse“ c) „Annotate“ d)„Edit“ 12 12

Slide 13: Main Part: Annotate  Collecting and annotating 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 13 13

Slide 14: Main Part: Edit  Collaborative real time Ajax editor for SKOS ontologies  Tracking changes and chatting 14 14

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Slide 16: Main Part: Browse  Browsing the ontology and bookmark collection 16 16

Slide 17: Main Part: Search  Front page with input field to search within the shared index  PeopleSearch: simple search for people related to a topic 17 17

Slide 18: Let‘s start knowledge maturing! http://soboleo.fzi.de:8080/webPortal Login with FirstnameLastname Password: eatel08 18 18

Slide 19: Hands-on Phases MATURE - Continuous Social Learning in Knowledge Networks 19

Slide 20: Phase 1: Individual & Collaborative Tagging  Time: 40’  Resources to work with • http://www.elearningpapers.eu/ • 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 20

Slide 21: Group Building  Time: 10’  Resources to work with • none  To Dos • You will have to clean up your mess (=consolidate) in the next phase • Form groups of 3-5 persons according to thematic interests 21

Slide 22: Phase 2: Consolidation & New Resources  Time: 50’  Resources to work with • Tagged resources and concepts in SOBOLEO, flipchart & cards (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 (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 22

Slide 23: Reflection Phase MATURE - Continuous Social Learning in Knowledge Networks 23

Slide 24: 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 • 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 • Any ideas, requirements for tools and services? • Any ideas, requirements for social processes? 24