Abstract
Knowledge engineering upholds a longstanding tradition that emphasises methodological issues associated with the acquisition and representation of knowledge in some (formal) language. This focus on methodology implies an ex ante approach: "think before you act". The rapid increase of linked data poses new challenges for knowledge engineering, and the SemanticWeb project as a whole. Although the dream of unhindered "knowledge reuse" is a technical reality, it has come at the cost of control. Semantic web content can no longer be assumed to have been produced in a controlled task-independent environment. When reused, Semantic Web content needs to be remoulded, refiltered and recurated for a new task. Traditional ex ante methodologies do not provide any guidelines for this ex post knowledge reengineering; forcing developers to resort to ad hoc measures and manual labour: the knowledge reengineering bottleneck.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 111-115 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Semantic Web |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue number | 1-2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2010 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Data reuse
- Design patterns
- Dirty data
- Knowledge engineering
- Linked data
- Ontology reuse
- Provenance