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    Definition und Evaluation einer Guideline zur Entwicklung von qualitativ guten Ontologien
    with S. Schulz, D. Seddig-Raufie, D. Schober, J. Röhl, N. Grewe, and L. Jansen
    GMDS 2013: 58. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie Und Epidemiologie E.V. (GMDS). Lübeck 1. 2013.
    Ontology engineering is mainly done by domain experts who are specialists in their domain but have, if at all, limited knowledge in logics, computer science, or analytic philosophy. The literature on formal ontologies and biomedical ontologies is neither suited nor intended to serve as an educational resource that would help domain experts to become good ontologists. Existing educational resources focus rather on ontology tools and languages than on good practice. The purpose of the GoodOD guide…Read more
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    Effects of Guideline-Based Training on the Quality of Formal Ontologies: A Randomized Controlled Trial
    with L. Jansen, J. Röhl, N. Grewe, D. Seddig-Raufie, and S. Schulz
    PLoS ONE 1. 2013.
    BACKGROUND The importance of ontologies in the biomedical domain is generally recognized. However, their quality is often too poor for large-scale use in critical applications, at least partially due to insufficient training of ontology developers. OBJECTIVE To show the efficacy of guideline-based ontology development training on the performance of ontology developers. The hypothesis was that students who received training on top-level ontologies and design patterns perform better than those who…Read more
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    OBJECTIVE: (a) To measure the effect of a guideline-based training on the performance of ontology developers compared with the performance after unspecific training by a competency question based evaluation; and (b) to provide empirical evidence for the applicability of competency questions in formal ontology evaluation in general. BACKGROUND: A close connection between ontology development and ontology evaluation as quality management procedure can been attained with the use of competency quest…Read more
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    Teaching Good Biomedical Ontology Design
    with D. Seddig-Raufie, S. Schulz, N. Grewe, J. Röhl, L. Jansen, and D. Schober
    Background: In order to improve ontology quality, tool- and language-related tutorials are not sufficient. Care must be taken to provide optimized curricula for teaching the representational language in the context of a semantically rich upper level ontology. The constraints provided by rigid top and upper level models assure that the ontologies built are not only logically consistent but also adequately represent the domain of discourse and align to explicitly outlined ontological principles. …Read more
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    Proposed actions are no actions: Re-modelling an ontology design pattern with a realist top-level ontology
    with D. Seddig-Raufie, L. Jansen, S. Schulz, and D. Schober
    Journal of Biomedical Semantics 3 (2). 2012.
    Background Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs) are representational artifacts devised to offer solutions for recurring ontology design problems. They promise to enhance the ontology building process in terms of flexibility, re-usability and expansion, and to make the result of ontology engineering more predictable. In this paper, we analyze ODP repositories and investigate their relation with upper-level ontologies. In particular, we compare the BioTop upper ontology to the Action ODP from the NeOn …Read more