Geosemantic Taboo

Michels Henry, Bartoschek Thomas

Abstract

Since the last decades semantic interoperability is a major issue in GI-Science. Semantic interoperability addresses the avoidance of semantic conflicts, which happen during communication processes dealing with geographic information. Ontology is the magic bullet when talking about solutions for semantic conflicts. However, the most existing ontologies fail in achieving equal interpretations of the represented part of reality. Our work will briefly reflect the current situation in ontology engineering and show exemplarily why ontologies are insufficiently crafted. We come up with an approach to identify and evaluate a minimum of expressiveness, which have to be provided to ensure the usefulness of ontologies according to their purpose. We propose a game-based application concept for educational purposes that supports the collection of vocabularies for ontology engineering.