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h2. 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?

h2. Specific areas of investigation

h3. What are the most important use cases for the nanotechnology meta-ontology and what communities do these impact?


h4. Searching for nanotechnology information

* What is the end-user looking for?
* What are the current problems with search?
* Other


h4. 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


h4. 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


h4. 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


h4. Identifying communities

* What are the various roles of users for the use cases described above?
* What types of organizations support these users?


h3. What are existing ontologies, taxonomies, and other terminologies that support these use cases?


h4. Biomedical ontologies and terminologies

* What are the primary biomedical ontologies for nanotechnology?


h4. Nanomanufacturing ontologies and terminologies

* What are the primary nanomanufacturing terminologies?


h4. 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?


h4. Communities of users and contributors

* Who are the primary users of these vocabularies?
* Who are the primary developers of these vocabularies?


h3. What are the best practices for integrating these terminologies into a meta-ontology to support the nanotechnology community use cases?


h4. 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


h4. Deployment

* How do we deploy and disseminate the meta-ontology?
** Do we just provide the methods…
** …or the methods and results?
* Other


h4. Versioning

* How do we version the meta-ontology to handle changes in the source terminologies?
* Other


h2. 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

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