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Study of Sociocultural Ontology

Authors:
Papa Fary Diallo
Seydina Moussa Ndiaye
Moussa Lo

Keywords: Social Network; Social Network Analysis; Semantic Web; Ontology; Activity Theory.

Abstract:
In this paper, we propose a process of sociocultural ontology development to popularize and perpetuate the culture of a country through a sharing of customs and history of different localities. It can be compared with the construction of a platform that would be straddled between “corporate memory” and a “social network”, but applied in the context of a country. This process is based on the theory of Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky called “Vygotskian Framework”. This process allowed us to model our ontology in three axes -Community, Artefact and Infrastructure -, which allowed us to have two levels of social network analysis. An intra-community level allows us to have knowledge within a community and inter-community level, through our index of "similarity of interest," allows us to form clusters of our network.

Pages: 69 to 74

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: October 23, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2326-9294

ISBN: 978-1-61208-163-2

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from October 23, 2011 to October 29, 2011