Daniel Kless

Daniel Kless

PhD Student

Department of Information Systems
The University of Melbourne
Room 2.34, ICT Building, 111 Barry St, Carlton, VIC, Australia

Phone: +61 3 8344 1555
Email: d.klesspgrad.unimelb.edu.au

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Research Interests

Core areas

Ontologies, Vocabularies, Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS), Information Organization, Metamodeling, Datamodeling, Domain modeling, Knowledge representation, Library and Information Studies, Information Science

Related areas

Content Management, Information Management, Knowledge Management (KM), Model-driven architecture (MDA), Information Architecture (AI), Computer Science (CS), Information Systems (IS), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Semantic Web, Information retrieval, Indexing, Tagging, Metadata

Thesis

Title

Framework for the description and comparison of semantic models

Supervisors

Dr Simon Milton, Dr Edmund Kazmierczak

Research goal

Exploring models, meta-languages or similar instruments that make characteristics of existing types of semantic models understandable and comparable.

Object of investigation

Semantic models as they are typically produced in various communities:

More specifically, the analysis shall encompass at least the first two, but possibly also further types of semantic models in the following priority list:

  1. Thesauri
  2. Web-Ontologies (generally published in OWL)
  3. Class Diagrams
  4. Semantic models applied in industrial organization
  5. Ontologies (logic-based such KIF, Description Logic / DL or Common Logic / CL)
  6. Classification Schemes

Further candidates of future analysis include:

Synonym rings, Subject headings, Name authority lists, Semantic Networks, Taxonomies, Folksonomies, Topic maps, Directory structures, Navigation bars, Table of contents, Indexes, Terminologies, Lexicons, Dictionaries, Glossaries

Contribution of the research

A framework, i.e. a set of models, meta-languages or similar instruments revealing characteristics of semantic models:

Moreover, a meta-language / reference language shall a) express and systemize theconceptual elements that can be found across the various types of semantic models and b) translate between the different terminologies in the various communities

Novelty

The combination of:

Research design

The research is planned to iterate between analysing specific types of semantic models, building/synthesizing the framework and applying it.

Benefits

Please download the prelimiary draft version of my PhD confirmation report and its presentation for a more complete description of my research.

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Background

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