Authors:
Joel Cummings
and
Deborah Stacey
Affiliation:
University of Guelph, Canada
Keyword(s):
Mid Level Ontology, Data Collection Ontology (DCO), BFO, Data Collection, OBO Foundry, Foundational Ontology, Upper Level Ontology, Domain Ontology.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Data Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge Representation
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Ontology Engineering
;
Ontology Sharing and Reuse
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Capturing data in a step-by-step manner is generally completed using surveys that maintain some flow between questions to capture data from a large number of respondents in a consistent manner. In other words capturing data using surveys is a form of data collection that imposes a specific process to collect data. In this paper we present the benefit of utilizing the mid-level Data Collection Ontology (DCO) to construct a survey ontology that is domain independent and compare to an existing Survey Ontology (Fox M.S., 2016) implementation.