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Virtual Activity Ontology Modeling: The Case of Sociocultural Knowledge Sharing

Authors:
Kaladzavi Guidedi
Diallo Papa Fary
Kolyang Dina Taiwe
Lo Moussa

Keywords: sociocultural knowledge; sharing; Human Activity Theory

Abstract:
In the light of the rhythm of the current cultural mixing, we believe that in the long term, culture of African people in particular may disappear. Some new computational techniques (semantic web technologies) are needed to manage the large repositories of sociocultural data and to discover useful patterns and knowledge from them. This paper presents a virtual activity ontology modeling approach, in the case of sociocultural knowledge sharing and co-construction named Ontoshare. Our modeling approach is based on Engeström’s Human Activity Theory (HAT). With Ontoshare we designed how Internet users could build the content of a sociocultural Knowledge Management System (KMS); this vocabulary also organises data, facilitates information retrieval by introducing a semantic layer in social web platform, we plan to implement. The platform could be considered as a « collective memory » which will allow communities to share, co-construct and discover sociocultural knowledge in the Cameroonian context.

Pages: 36 to 41

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: November 15, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2326-9294

ISBN: 978-1-61208-443-5

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from November 15, 2015 to November 20, 2015