Invited short talk at OntoContent Workshop 2008, Monterrey, Mexico, Nov 10

1. MATURE: a dynamic perspective on ontologies
Simone Braun
FZI Research Center for
Information Technologies
http://mature-ip.eu OntoContent-QSI Workshop 2008
November 10, 2008

2. FP7 EU Integrated Project (04/08 – 03/12)
Coordinator Application Partners
Research & Technology Partners
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3. Motivation
Agility of enterprises as a key success factor requires
• Leveraging the employees‘ creativity and hands-on experience
• Improving the sharing of knowledge within and across company
borders
• Support with a new form of organizational guidance
Instead of top-down approaches we need a balance of
top-down and bottom-up developments for learning
support
• Bring together the efficiency of organizations and the
engagement and user empowerment
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4. Knowledge Maturing Process Model
MATURE - Continuous Social Based on Knowledge Networks and [Maier & Schmidt, 2007]
Learning in [Schmidt, 2005] 4

5. Knowledge Maturing Process Model
New ideas are developed by individuals
From personal experiences or in highly
informal discussions
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6. Knowledge Maturing Process Model
Exchange of ideas & personal experiences
Development of common terminology; e.g.
in discussion forum entries or wikis
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7. Knowledge Maturing Process Model
Purpose-driven structured documents are
created
e.g. project reports or process models
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8. Knowledge Maturing Process Model
Pedagogical preparation of the material for
broader dissemination
e.g. service instructions or manuals
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9. Knowledge Maturing Process Model
Individual learning objects are put together
to cover broader subject area
Subject area becomes teachable to novices
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10. Different Types of Knowledge
process
maturing
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11. Approach
More participation!
• Knowledge maturing is an active & collaborative process
• Reduce motivational, conceptual & technical barriers
Management & guidance as
• „providing the environment & framework“
• „gardening“
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12. Example: Competence Ontology
Development
Employees annotate each other with any topic tag
new topic ideas emerge; e.g. describing recent/specific ones
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13. Example: Competence Ontology
Development
A common topic terminology evolves through the collaborative
(re-)usage of the topic tags
Topic tags are defined and refined, useless or incorrect ones are
rejected
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14. Example: Competence Ontology
Development
Special community members begin to organize the topic
terminology into competencies
Introduction of relations between topic tags
o OO-Programming <is superconcept of> Java-Programming
o Java-Programming <is related to> C#-Programming 14

15. Example: Competence Ontology
Development
Adding axioms for exploiting relationships for reasoning
especially precise generalisation & composition relationships
o Java Programming <is a> OO Programming
o {Java Programming Expert, AJAX Programming Beginner} <is part of> GWT-
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16. SOBOLEO
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17. Tools
Personal learning environments
• Bundling of loosely coupled tools & services into flexible tool
boxes that support individual learning
• Integration following the mashup paradigm
• „personal“ and „social“
Organizational learning environments
• Role of gardening
• Analysis & visualization
• Intervention
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18. The MATURE
Vision

19. Objectives
an analysis of real-world maturing practices
knowledge maturing & development of a reference
model
the methodical conception of tools supporting
learning
development of reusable technical services
the accompanying, early formative evaluation of
approaches (concepts, design studies, prototypes)
with endusers
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20. MATURE
More information on http://mature-ip.eu
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