Re: ANN: Modular Unified Tagging Ontology (MUTO)

On 17.11.2011 20:03, Richard Cyganiak wrote:
> Hi Steffen,
>
> On 17 Nov 2011, at 14:34, Steffen Lohmann wrote:
>> MUTO should thus not be considered as yet another tagging ontology but as a unification of existing approaches.
> I'm curious why you decided not to include mappings (equivalentClass, subProperty etc) to the existing approaches.

Good point, Richard. I thought about it but finally decided to separate 
these alignments from the core ontology - therefore the "MUTO Mappings 
Module" (http://muto.socialtagging.org/core/v1.html#Modules).

SIOC and SKOS can be nicely reused but aligning MUTO with the nine 
reviewed tagging ontologies is challenging and would result in a number 
of inconsistencies. This is mainly due to a different conceptual 
understanding of tagging and folksonomies in the various ontologies. To 
give some examples:

- Are tags with same labels merged in the ontology (i.e. are they one 
instance)?
- Is the number of tags per tagging limited to one or not?
- In case of semantic tagging: Are single tags or complete taggings 
disambiguated?
- How are the creators of taggings linked?
- Are tags from private taggings visible to other users or not?

Apart from that, I would have risk that MUTO is no longer OWL Lite/DL 
which I consider important for a tagging ontology (reasoning of 
folksonomies).

The current version of the MUTO Mappings Module provides alignments to 
Newman's popular TAGS ontology (mainly for compatibility reasons). Have 
a look at it and you'll get an idea of the difficulties in correctly 
aligning MUTO with existing tagging ontologies.

Best,
Steffen

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