Populous: a tool for building OWL ontologies from templates.
Populous: a tool for building OWL ontologies from templates.
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DOI：
10.1186/1471-2105-13-s1-s5
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发表时间：
2012-01-25
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3
通讯作者：
Stevens R
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作者：
Jupp S;Horridge M;Iannone L;Klein J;Owen S;Schanstra J;Wolstencroft K;Stevens R
生命科学正在开发本体论，以规范我们描述和解释当前生成的大量数据的方式。随着越来越多的基于本体的应用程序开始出现，需要一些工具使领域专家能够将他们的知识贡献给不断增长的本体库。有许多阻碍领域专家参与本体开发过程的障碍，需要新的工具来打破这些障碍，使更广泛的科学家社区参与进来。我们介绍了Populous，一个用于收集内容以构建本体的工具。领域专家需要添加内容，这些内容的形式通常是重复的，但不必处理底层的本体论表示。Populous为用户提供了一个基于表的表单，其中的列被约束为从特定本体获取值。填充的表被映射到模式，然后可以使用模式自动生成本体的内容。这些表单可以导出为电子表格，提供许多生物学家更熟悉的界面。Populous的贡献是在本体开发的知识收集阶段；它将知识收集从概念化和公理化中分离出来，并将用户从标准本体创作环境中分离出来。Populous绝不是标准本体编辑工具的替代品，而是提供了一个有用的平台，让更多的科学家参与到本体内容的大规模生产中。
Ontologies are being developed for the life sciences to standardise the way we describe and interpret the wealth of data currently being generated. As more ontology based applications begin to emerge, tools are required that enable domain experts to contribute their knowledge to the growing pool of ontologies. There are many barriers that prevent domain experts engaging in the ontology development process and novel tools are needed to break down these barriers to engage a wider community of scientists. We present Populous, a tool for gathering content with which to construct an ontology. Domain experts need to add content, that is often repetitive in its form, but without having to tackle the underlying ontological representation. Populous presents users with a table based form in which columns are constrained to take values from particular ontologies. Populated tables are mapped to patterns that can then be used to automatically generate the ontology's content. These forms can be exported as spreadsheets, providing an interface that is much more familiar to many biologists. Populous's contribution is in the knowledge gathering stage of ontology development; it separates knowledge gathering from the conceptualisation and axiomatisation, as well as separating the user from the standard ontology authoring environments. Populous is by no means a replacement for standard ontology editing tools, but instead provides a useful platform for engaging a wider community of scientists in the mass production of ontology content.