A Foundry of Human Activities and Infrastructures
This work addresses the challenge of semantic modeling for digital libraries, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing ontology approaches without clear novel breakthroughs.
The paper tackles the problem of representing everyday human activities and infrastructures in knowledgebases by proposing a foundry of ontologies and resources, but it does not report any concrete results or numbers.
Direct representation knowledgebases can enhance and even provide an alternative to document-centered digital libraries. Here we consider realist semantic modeling of everyday activities and infrastructures in such knowledgebases. Because we want to integrate a wide variety of topics, a collection of ontologies (a foundry) and a range of other knowledge resources are needed. We first consider modeling the routine procedures that support human activities and technologies. Next, we examine the interactions of technologies with aspects of social organization. Then, we consider approaches and issues for developing and validating explanations of the relationships among various entities.