1. LE:NOTRE Spring Workshop The Role of Ontologies for Mapping the Domain of Landscape Architecture An introduction

2. LE:NOTRE Spring Workshop The Role of Ontologies for Mapping the Domain of Landscape Architecture Oντος = Being ; Λογια = discourse The study of categories emerged 300 A.D. in ancient Greece.

3. LE:NOTRE Spring Workshop The Role of Ontologies for Mapping the Domain of Landscape Architecture Computer Sciences have adopted a concept of applied ontologies in the context of knowledge management. "An ontology defines a common vocabulary for researchers who need to share information in a domain. It includes machine-interpretable definitions of basic concepts in the domain and the relations among them." Noy/McGuinness, Stanford Univ. 2001

4. LE:NOTRE Spring Workshop The Role of Ontologies for Mapping the Domain of Landscape Architecture In the context of LE:NOTRE, ontology is not understood as philosophical discipline. It is an artefact, designed for expressing a specific domain. SHARE CONCEPTS + RELATIONS

5. LE:NOTRE Spring Workshop The Role of Ontologies for Mapping the Domain of Landscape Architecture Purpose of ontologies: Interpretation by machines Knowledge management Interoperability of systems Relating languages Reasoning (to some extend) Cooperation between actors Cooperation between computers

6. LE:NOTRE Spring Workshop The Role of Ontologies for Mapping the Domain of Landscape Architecture Ontology Development Steps ontology specification knowledge acquisition conceptualisation formalisation evaluation documentation

7. LE:NOTRE Spring Workshop The Role of Ontologies for Mapping the Domain of Landscape Architecture LEARNING - Develop a body of knowledge for the considered domain in the learners mind. The skeleton of this body is a semantic network of the main domain concepts - ONTOLOGY Ontologies + Learning

8. LE:NOTRE Spring Workshop The Role of Ontologies for Mapping the Domain of Landscape Architecture The LE:NOTRE approach so far:

9. LE:NOTRE Spring Workshop The Role of Ontologies for Mapping the Domain of Landscape Architecture The objective: A topic map of the landscape architecture domain

10. LE:NOTRE Spring Workshop The Role of Ontologies for Mapping the Domain of Landscape Architecture Potential scope of bachelor programmes within the topic map

11. LE:NOTRE Spring Workshop The Role of Ontologies for Mapping the Domain of Landscape Architecture Potential scope of master programmes within the topic map

12. LE:NOTRE Spring Workshop The Role of Ontologies for Mapping the Domain of Landscape Architecture Ontology potentials within LE:NOTRE: knowledge management across databases Course Units Images Projects Course Unit Excercises Competence Ontology Request metadata

13. LE:NOTRE Spring Workshop The Role of Ontologies for Mapping the Domain of Landscape Architecture Ontology potentials for an educational environment in and beyond LE:NOTRE Competence Ontology Request Which contents are associated with the competence? Which learning paths are proposed? Which neighbouring competences are existing? Which contents are semantically related (thematic neighborhoods)? ….across idiomatic boundaries

14. LE:NOTRE Spring Workshop Semantic Web The Role of Ontologies for Mapping the Domain of Landscape Architecture Ontology potentials beyond LE:NOTRE: Information retrieval across webites Landscape Architecture Ontology Request

15. LE:NOTRE Spring Workshop Design Ontology Architecture Ontology Urban Planning Ontology Public Policy Ontology Ecology Ontology Landscape Architecture Ontology The Role of Ontologies for Mapping the Domain of Landscape Architecture Ontology potentials beyond LE:NOTRE: Interdisciplinary Communication + Stakeholder Involvement

16. LE:NOTRE Spring Workshop The Role of Ontologies for Mapping the Domain of Landscape Architecture Within LE:NOTRE, learning is a core theme – Bring the network of domain concepts into peoples‘ mental networks Foundation for collaboration

17. LE:NOTRE Spring Workshop Elements of an ontology: hierarchy of concepts/classes (i.e.: an urban square is an instance of the concept “urban open space”) logical relations (i.e. all urban squares are urban open spaces) elements have properties (urban squares have a name, a location, a size, a designer and so on)