OntoSOC: Sociocultural Knowledge Ontology
This work addresses the need for Cameroonian communities to share and co-construct knowledge on organized activities, but it is incremental as it applies an existing theory to a specific domain without novel methodological breakthroughs.
The authors tackled the problem of organizing sociocultural knowledge by developing OntoSOC, an ontology based on Human Activity Theory, which enables structured data organization and facilitates information retrieval through a semantic layer for a social web platform.
This paper presents a sociocultural knowledge ontology (OntoSOC) modeling approach. OntoSOC modeling approach is based on Engestrom Human Activity Theory (HAT). That Theory allowed us to identify fundamental concepts and relationships between them. The top-down precess has been used to define differents sub-concepts. The modeled vocabulary permits us to organise data, to facilitate information retrieval by introducing a semantic layer in social web platform architecture, we project to implement. This platform can be considered as a collective memory and Participative and Distributed Information System (PDIS) which will allow Cameroonian communities to share an co-construct knowledge on permanent organized activities.