A translation approach to portable ontology specifications
Knowledge Acquisition - Special issue: Current issues in knowledge modeling
The sciences of the artificial (3rd ed.)
The sciences of the artificial (3rd ed.)
Design science in information systems research
MIS Quarterly
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A knowledge repository design artifact, the Constructivist Unifying Baccalaureate Epistemology (CUBE), incorporating conceptual mapping features and a semantic ontology structure was developed and evaluated. The aim is to achieve quantifiable improvement in learning outcomes by integrating course materials in a field of study. The CUBE knowledge repository was modeled as an organic structure with the ability to evolve over time by incorporating a ranking/voting feature that enables learners and instructors to add further content to the knowledge base and collectively evaluate the relative weights of conceptual threads. The goal of this research was to provide the means, models and tools that would allow learners, from their earliest studies, to develop and explore these conceptual threads that tie a discipline together. Although this paper focuses on the technological details of the design and implementation of the artifacts, it also describes the knowledge integration theoretical models used as the basis for tool design and presents the results of a qualitative and quantitative evaluation carried out to assess the effectiveness of the artifacts.