Ontology evolution for end-user communities

This project supports application for a practice-based[4] PhD by Peter Goodall. The project will produce a system architecture and proof-of-concept laboratory implementation to model, instrument, prototype, and evaluate the effectiveness of several alternate system designs which are intended to enable small end-user communities to evolve specialized ontologies and annotations for entities important to them. Depending on available resources, the laboratory may also be used to study bridging-subset ontologies for interchange, federation and seeding of community ontologies. There will be a discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches tried by others, and a reflection on the usefulness of the system resulting from innovative work of this project.