{"id":584,"date":"2026-07-13T16:45:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T15:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/knowledge-media-institute\/?page_id=584"},"modified":"2026-07-14T13:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:37:19","slug":"informal-ontologies-in-the-organization-of-research-materials-and-authoring","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/knowledge-media-institute\/informal-ontologies-in-the-organization-of-research-materials-and-authoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Informal ontologies in the organisation of research materials and authoring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Murray Altheim – KMi, The Open University<\/strong>
This event took place on Monday 17 November 2003 at 12:30<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Much of the history of Knowledge Representation and Ontological Engineering has been based on a premise of formalized ontologies, designed by (and often only used by) trained experts. Seldom have non-experts been granted entry.

My Ph.D. is based on a different premise: that informal ontologies developed by non-experts may still provide significant gains over more traditional organizational approaches.

This talk presents an ontology-based authoring environment intended to assist writers in organizing their research materials, and further, in visualizing and developing narratives based upon those materials.

The authoring software is called “Ceryle”, a Java-based framework that includes a text editor, an internal database for storing notes and other content, an ontology visualizer and editor, as well as plans for various auto-generation of composited documents. Anything that can be referred to via URI can be organized using Ceryle.

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