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Library and Information Science

Syracuse University

2006

Ontology

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Adaptive Modeling Of Workforce Domain Knowledge, Jian Qin, Peter Creticos, Wen-Yuan Hsiao Jul 2006

Adaptive Modeling Of Workforce Domain Knowledge, Jian Qin, Peter Creticos, Wen-Yuan Hsiao

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

Workforce development is a multidisciplinary domain in which policy, laws and regulations, social services, training and education, and information technology and systems are heavily involved. It is essential to have a semantic base accepted by the workforce development community for knowledge sharing and exchange. This paper describes how such a semantic base—the Workforce Open Knowledge Exchange (WOKE) Ontology—was built by using the adaptive modeling approach. The focus of this paper is to address questions such as how ontology designers should extract and model concepts obtained from different sources and what methodologies are useful along the steps of ontology development. The …

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Building Interoperable Vocabulary And Structures For Learning Objects, Jian Qin, Naybell Hernández Jan 2006

Building Interoperable Vocabulary And Structures For Learning Objects, Jian Qin, Naybell Hernández

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

The structural, functional, and production views on learning objects influence metadata structure and vocabulary. We drew on these views and conducted a literature review and in-depth analysis of 14 learning objects and over 500 components in these learning objects to model the knowledge framework for a learning object ontology. The learning object ontology reported in this paper consists of 8 top-level classes, 28 classes at the second level, and 34 at the third level. Except class Learning object, all other classes have the three properties of preferred term, related term, and synonym. To validate the ontology, we conducted a query …

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