Support Knowledge Sharing and Construction in Virtual Learning Communities

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Supporting Domain Experts to Construct Conceptual
Ontologies The Rabbit to OWL Authoring Approach
Current State and Future Work

• Currently, we have implemented the main Rabbit
  constructs and have conducted several small user
  studies to examine the usability of ROO and
  identify future improvements. The next stage of
  the project includes
• Larger evaluation study with domain experts at
  Ordnance Survey
• Completion of the set of Rabbit constructs with
  appropriate support based on an analysis of
  common user errors
• Extend ROO to provide support with ontology
  verification and to follow best practices of
  ontology construction.

Leeds University team Ronald Denaux, Vania
Dimitrova, Tony Cohn, Ilaria Corda Ordnance
Survey team Ian Holt, Catherine Dolbear, Glen
Hart, John Goodwin Project web site
http//www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/confluence/ The ROO
tool can be downloaded from http//sourceforge.n
et/projects/confluence