- From: Tanja Sieber <tanja.sieber@t-dos.de>
- Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 08:37:25 +0100
- To: <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
I come originally from Germany, where I degreed in electrical engineering with specialisation biomedical engineering, worked as service diagnostic developer at GM and degreed in technical writing. In that field I worked 5 years as a freelancer in consulting and training of possibilities to standardize documentations and its processing --> XML was a topic in that context. Actually I live already since two years in Hungary.Since September I'm a PhD student and lecturer at the university of Miskolc in the department of information engineering. My research work deals with analyzing 'ontologies in the field of technical documentation' and I'm very interested in everything, what's going on with semantic web, formal logic languages and their representations, but in fact I also feel at the same time, that the more I read and test and write, the more I know, that I know almost nothing about these things:-) Topics that I'm interested in to examine are the possibilities of ontologies to solve existing problems in documentation workflows such as - Variety of documents: In redactional departments exist a great variety of different documentations. Variants exist not only in relation with different products but also internally by different intentional groups (detailed developer documentation, user documentation, etc.). In future the documentation should be built up in a modular way, in order to have the chance to realize a sort of basic documents, on which other documents can be based upon.and can be generated product-specific out of. Redundant information should be avoided that way. - Handling of languages: the translation costs still are amazingly high, because for every new product the whole documentation is translated, even if there are only some new passages or sentences changed to the previous version. One solution naturally is the usage of Translation Memory Systems, but using ontologies maybe there will be the possibility to define rules, when a sentence has to be translated or not. - Distributed Data, information and knowledge sources: In general development processes are embedded in complex structures. The concerned knowledge is allocated on involved persons of different departments in different production places and in different applications. As a consequence of that fact, user have difficulties in searching and finding relevant information. Most interesting point is that in such a process nearly everyone has both roles: the one of having knowledge or information and that one of searching and needing it. The main task is to collect knowledge and to place it, where it is needed. - Missing Informational feedback: Service technicians often spend time unnecessarily solving problems, which have long been resolved. The bottom line is that there needs to be improved interaction among service technicians as well as between service and development: If experience is directly reabsorbed into the process area and is available to all those involved, this means a quantum leap for quality and efficiency. - Quality of documentation processes: Which approachs offers a standardized modeling regarding the quality control of documentation and processing systems? How can quality be measured? How can quality control be standardized? AND very IMPORTANT: how can ontologies be created out of already existing and used data or information models? As I'm still passionated to te area of biomedical engineering I felt motivated enough to subscribe to this list, wish you a nice weekend, Tanja **************************************************************************** ************ Best Regards / Mit freundlichen Grüssen / Üdvözlettel Dipl.-Ing. Tanja Sieber t-dos Technische Dokumentationen und Schulungen www.t-dos.de GENIAL Snowboards www.genial-snowboards.de Friedrichshafen Stuttgart Mobil: +49-170-901 69 77 Karlsruhe München (Germany) VoIP: +49-89-420 95 56 93 Miskolc (Hungary) Mobil: +36-70-547 70 64 Tel.: +36-46-433 531 Kindness is the language, which the deaf can hear and the blind can see (Mark Twain) **************************************************************************** ************ ____________ Virus checked by G DATA AntiVirusKit Version: AVK 16.1900 from 29.11.2005 Virus news: www.antiviruslab.com
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