Towards Ontology Mapping for Ordinary People

The reasons for the lack of uptake of the semantic web amongst ordinary users can be attributed to technology perception, comprehensibility and ease of use. It is perceived that the creation of ontologies is a top-down and complex process, whereas in reality ontologies can emerge bottom-up and be simple. Ontology technology is based on formal logics that are not understandable for ordinary people. Finally there is significant overhead for a user in the creation of metadata for information resources in accordance with ontologies. To address these three problems, we believe that the interfaces to ontology tools will need to be engineered in such a way as the tools disappear into the background from the ordinary person’s perspective.

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