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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

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  • 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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