Survey on Ontologies and the LOD Cloud

[Markus Luczak-Rösch]

Dear colleagues and dataset hosts,

during the last days I researched contact persons which are
responsible for datasets in the current LOD cloud diagram. During this
research I found out that you are such a person for at least one
dataset.

My goal is to run a survey on the character of the underlying
ontologies of LOD in the cloud and the effort spent on engineering
these ontologies. For this purpose I would like to ask you for your
support. Please fill out the survey at

http://survey.markus-luczak.de

once for each dataset you provide (it should not take any longer than
five minutes to fill out the form).

If I am wrong and you are not the correct contact person, than it
would be great if you could forward me to such a person.

This survey is part of a PhD research on ontology maintenance
(supervised by Prof. Robert Tolksdorf [FU Berlin] and co-supervised by
Natasha Noy [Stanford Biomedical School]).

I currently got a response rate of 11/99 but some responses cover a
bigger number of datasets (such as bio2rdf), so I am on a way to get a
relevant overview. You could help to improve this relevance a lot.

Thank you very much in advance and apologies for any inconveniences.

Best regards,

Markus

[Christopher Gutteridge]

As I replied to this person when I got this email several days ago... if
he can't (a) commit to making his data open and (b) link it against the
CKAN data, I ain't going to invest the time.

My work in Open Repositories attracts a large number of requests like
this and I would prefer we aimed to make this data available for all
than get requests to fill in surveys like this.

It sort of misses the point.

--
Christopher Gutteridge -- http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/person/1248

You should read the ECS Web Team blog: http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/

[Markus Luczak-Rösch]

Dear Christopher, dear all,

as I already answered directly to Christophers mail: I am sorry that I
missed that first mail because of
messy filtering here.

So, to clearify the point of my survey:

We used the CKAN repository as a starting point to find the
responsible persons behind datasets in the current cloud.
It is not enough for me to know which ontologies are used in the
current cloud. For this purpose, I would not have to ask the people
out there, you are right. If you have a closer look on my survey, you
see that I want to find something out about the way the ontologies
were engineered. And this is a fact I can only get answered by the
people, there is no chance to compute this.

All the results will be published once the survey is finished. And
everything we collect which is of a common interest will be made
available in CKAN (e.g. a cleaned list of project responsible persons
and potentially something more).

I am very sorry if this survey hurts any scientific practice. To my
best knowledge I cannot see this, yet. Moreover, it was never intended
to do so or to limit work for me and transfer it to others.

Due to the fact that several colleagues answered the survey for "their
dataset" I think that they agree that there is a scientific value in
it. If you disagree than I accept it with respect as another
perspective on it.

Apologies for any inconveniences because of my request. I hope to have
the chance of further discussions with you in the future.

Cheers,
Markus

On 22 Nov., 11:38, Christopher Gutteridge <c...@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Christopher Gutteridge --http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/person/1248