Unintended consequences of class-based ontological commitment

Authors:
Roman Lukyanenko;Jeffrey Parsons
Affiliations:
Faculty of Business Administration, Memorial University, St. John's Canada;Faculty of Business Administration, Memorial University, St. John's Canada
Venue:
ER'11 Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Advances in conceptual modeling: recent developments and new directions
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Domain ontologies can promote shared understanding of a domain using standardized constructs to represent domain semantics. Building upon this promise, libraries of domain-specific ontologies have been created. However, we argue that adopting any particular domain ontology can in fact hinder domain understanding and reduce the quality of data made available through a shared ontology. This paper examines unintended consequences of class-based ontological commitment and advocates instead an instance-andproperty ontological foundation. The proposed approach can better inform the practice of information sharing and can, in participative domains, enable users to contribute higher quality information with fewer constraints.