OntoSOC: Sociocultural Knowledge Ontology

TL;DR

This paper introduces OntoSOC, a sociocultural knowledge ontology based on Human Activity Theory, designed to organize social data and facilitate community knowledge sharing through a semantic social web platform.

Contribution

It presents a novel ontology modeling approach grounded in HAT for organizing sociocultural data in a participative social web system.

Findings

Ontology enables organized sociocultural data management

Facilitates information retrieval via semantic layer

Supports community knowledge sharing and co-construction

Abstract

This paper presents a sociocultural knowledge ontology (OntoSOC) modeling approach. OntoSOC modeling approach is based on Engestrom Human Activity Theory (HAT). That Theory allowed us to identify fundamental concepts and relationships between them. The top-down precess has been used to define differents sub-concepts. The modeled vocabulary permits us to organise data, to facilitate information retrieval by introducing a semantic layer in social web platform architecture, we project to implement. This platform can be considered as a collective memory and Participative and Distributed Information System (PDIS) which will allow Cameroonian communities to share an co-construct knowledge on permanent organized activities.