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Prioritized Questions
- What are the most relevant use cases for nanotechnology meta-ontology and what communities do these impact?
- What are the existing ontologies, taxonomies, and other terminologies that support these use cases?
- What are the best practices for integrating these terminologies into a meta-ontology to support the nanotechnology community use cases?
Specific areas of investigation
What are the most important use cases for the nanotechnology meta-ontology and what communities do these impact?
Searching for nanotechnology information
- What is the end-user looking for?
- What are the current problems with search?
- Other
Exploring existing nanotechnology datasets
- What are the trends in nanotechnology research and characterization?
- Where are the gaps in current research?
- What are the most important characteristics or features?
- Other
Developing predictive models
- How do we relate nanomaterial formulation and preparation to activity?
- Material properties
- Biological activities
- Environmental fate and transport
- Other
- What types of models and ontology concepts/annotation support such prediction?
- Other
Curating, annotating, and sharing datasets
- How would a meta-ontology assist in the curation and annotation of nanotechnology data?
- How would a meta-ontology assist in the sharing of nanotechnology data?
- Other
Identifying communities
- What are the various roles of users for the use cases described above?
- What types of organizations support these users?
What are existing ontologies, taxonomies, and other terminologies that support these use cases?
Biomedical ontologies and terminologies
- What are the primary biomedical ontologies for nanotechnology?
Nanomanufacturing ontologies and terminologies
- What are the primary nanomanufacturing terminologies?
Terminologies from standards and other organizations
- What standards organization terminologies and lexicons are available for nanotechnology?
- What other terminologies would be useful to include in the meta-ontology?
Communities of users and contributors
- Who are the primary users of these vocabularies?
- Who are the primary developers of these vocabularies?
What are the best practices for integrating these terminologies into a meta-ontology to support the nanotechnology community use cases?
Ontology and vocabulary alignment methodology
- What are the best manual, semi-automated, and automated approaches for combining concepts and definitions into a meta-ontology?
- Other
Deployment
- How do we deploy and disseminate the meta-ontology?
- Do we just provide the methods…
- …or the methods and results?
- Other
Versioning
- How do we version the meta-ontology to handle changes in the source terminologies?
- Other
Milestones and dates
- May: Preliminary use cases
- June: Preliminary source terminologies
- July: Preliminary approach to terminology alignment and combination
- August: Final use cases
- September: Final source terminologies
- October: Initial meta-ontology
- November: Final approach to terminology alignment and combination
