Gi2MO Ontology Specification

V0.6 - 12 December 2012

This version:	http://purl.org/gi2mo/0.6/ns (RDF/XML, HTML)
Latest version:	http://purl.org/gi2mo/ns
Editors:	Adam Westerski
Authors:	Adam Westerski
Contributors:	See acknowledgements

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. This copyright applies to the Gi2MO Ontology Specification and accompanying documentation in RDF. This ontology uses W3C's RDF technology, an open Web standard that can be freely used by anyone.

Abstract

Generic Idea and Innovation Management Ontology (Gi2MO) is a standardised data schema (also referred as "ontology" or "vocabulary") designed to annotate and describe resources gathered inside Idea Management facilities. The following document contains the description of ontology and instructions how to connect it with descriptions of other resources.

Introduction
Gi2MO ontology at a glance
Gi2MO ontology overview
1. Example
Cross-reference for Gi2MO classes and properties

1 Introduction

The following specification is a formal description of metadata schema proposal that can be applied to data gathered in the so-called Idea Management Systems. The goal of the following section is to introduce both Semantic Web and Idea Management experts to the topic and goals of the ontology and provide the basic knowledge to comprehend the technical part of the specification.

An important note is that Gi2MO ontology is not a complete model of the Idea Management System. It marly defines concepts that are not described yet by the means of other ontologies. For detailed instructions how to completely model Idea Management Systems with Gi2MO and other ontologies see homepage of the Gi2MO project.

1.1 Idea Management Systems and Innovation Management Process

The Idea Management Systems are referred most often as an application used by organisations to collect input about various ideas regarding their products and services; and manage them afterwards providing certain assessment and screening facilities.

Although, the concept of such systems and vendors that deliver them are available on the market for quite a while, the scope and technologies involved are constantly evolving. The most most basic idea management process includes:

idea generation (facilities for submitting ideas)
idea improvement (usually Web 2.0 facilities to modify ideas in collaborative environment)
idea assessment (idea analysis, assessment and selection tools, e.g. diagrams and reports)

However, in the contemporary systems the tendency is to extend this process towards:

idea implementation (lightweight project management tools or integration with more complex suits)
idea deployment (analysis of business metrics related to products based on ideas from IM process, e.g. ROI)

In relation to other IT systems used in modern organisations, at the time of writing this specification the Idea Management Systems have not been yet introduced as a standard component by the key players as part of their ERP, PLM/PLCM or CRM suites. Idea Management, in relation to those systems, is still being considered as a rising market and a complementary solution that can be supplied depending on organisation's interest in investment in innovation.

In relation to other processes run in the modern enterprises, Idea Management can be defined as part of Innovation Management Process run as part of innovation strategy in many contemporary enterprises. Idea Management is perceived as complementary solution to this process that delivers tools that can enhance the successfulness of the innovation management process and open it to new possibilities.

1.2 The Semantic Web

The Semantic Web is a W3C initiative that aims to introduce rich metadata to the current Web and provide machine readable and processable data as a supplement to human-readable Web.

Semantic Web is a mature domain that has been in research phase for many years and with the increasing amount of commercial interest and emerging products is starting to gain appreciation and popularity as one of the rising trends for the future Internet.

One of the corner stores of the Semantic Web is research on inter-linkable and interoperable data schemas for information published online. Those schemas are often referred to as ontologies or vocabularies. In order to facilitate the concept of ontologies that lead to a truly interoperable Web of Data, W3C has proposed a series of technologies such as RDF and OWL. Gi2MO uses those technologies and the research that comes within to propose an ontology set in the domain of Idea Management.

1.3 What is Gi2MO for?

The goals of the Gi2MO ontology to achieve as a data schema are:

enable to publish raw data from Idea Management Systems online and in compliance with current and future Internet trends
interconnect Idea Management assets with other resources (projects, product metrics, basic knowledge management concepts)
utilise all above to enhance current idea assessment capabilities with algorithms based on analysis of rich semantic descriptions of idea management assets

For more information please refer to Gi2MO project website.

1.4 Ontology Extensions

The Gi2MO ontology can fulfil additional requirements and be adjusted to individual use cases through ontology extensions. Some of the currently maintained extensions of Gi2MO Ontology are:

IdeaStream Ontology - provides additional properties and classes for generating IMS data in a summarised form (e.g. useful for mobile devices where processing costs battery life or when sending data in low bandwidth networks)
Gi2MO Wave Ontology - an example of extending base Gi2MO ontology to suit a particular business model for IMS. The ontology includes new ways of idea categorisation and classification of idea review (e.g. market analyses etc.).
eDialogos Consensus - an ontology for argumentation systems, joins Gi2MO concepts together with ontologies for problem solving. Aside of modelling a social environment for posting and discussing over ideas, the ontology adds the notion of idea consensus, where participants argument pros and cos of ideas and produce a single final version together.

2. Gi2MO ontology at a glance

An alphabetical index of Gi2MO terms, by class (concepts) and by property (relationships, attributes), are given below. All the terms are hyperlinked to their detailed description for quick reference.

Classes: AccessContolList, AccessType, Attachment, Category, Comment, Description, Idea, IdeaCategory, IdeaContest, IdeaContestStatus, IdeaManagementSystem, IdeaStatus, IdeaTag, Metric, MinMaxRating, Project, Rating, Review, SubmissionMethod, TextualReview, UpDownRating, User, UserGroup, VersionInfo,

Properties: accessRight, complements, content, created, currentVersion, describesPartOf, describesRelatedObject, describesSameObject, description, details, endDate, excludes, extends, firstName, follows, fullname, generalizes, hasAccessContol, hasAccessRight, hasAttachment, hasAvatar, hasBinaryContent, hasCategory, hasComment, hasContributor, hasCreator, hasDescription, hasDuplicate, hasEditor, hasIdea, hasIdeaContest, hasImplementation, hasInputEndpoint, hasMember, hasMetric, hasNextVersion, hasNextVersionInfo, hasOrigin, hasPreviousVersion, hasPreviousVersionInfo, hasRelated, hasReview, hasSimilar, hasStatus, hasSubCategory, hasSubmissionMethod, hasSupplement, hasTag, hasTagging, hasTopCategory, hasVersionInfo, ideasNumber, isAccessControlOf, isAccountOf, isAlternativeIdea, isAlternativeSolution, isAttachmentOf, isCategoryOf, isCommentOf, isContributorOf, isCreatorOf, isDescribedIn, isDescriptionOf, isDisjoint, isDuplicateOf, isEditorOf, isExtendedBy, isIdeaContestOf, isIdeaOf, isImplementationOf, isLinkedBy, isMemberOf, isMergedFrom, isMergedInto, isMetricOf, isOriginOf, isReviewOf, isStatusOf, isSubmissionMethodOf, isSupplementOf, isTagOf, isTopicOf, isVersionInfoOf, lastName, linksTo, maxRatingValue, mboxSha1sum, metricUnit, metricValue, mimeType, minRatingValue, modificationType, organizationPosition, postsNumber, primaryTopic, proceeds, ratingDownValue, ratingUpValue, ratingValue, startDate, title, username, versionDate, versionNumber,

Instances: Accepted, Active, AlreadyExists, Closed, Deployed, Draft, Implemented, PartialyImplemented, PendingReviews, ReadAccess, Rejected, UnderReview, WriteAccess,

3. Gi2MO ontology overview

The Gi2MO UML diagram presented below shows connections between classes that implement the data model of Idea Management Systems.

UML Class Diagram for the Gi2MO Ontology (high resolution version: PNG)

3.1. Example

A very basic example below shows a single idea annotated with Gi2MO metadata:

  <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://lab.gsi.dit.upm.es/apache/adam/gsideas/idea/012345">
    <foaf:page rdf:resource="http://lab.gsi.dit.upm.es/apache/adam/gsideas/ideaView?id=012345"/>
    <gi2mo:hasCreator rdf:resource="http://lab.gsi.dit.upm.es/apache/adam/gsideas/user/Pablo"/>
    <gi2mo:content>I often forget keys to the laboratory, so i think it would be great to install a card access lock 
                    with a reader for chips in spanish ID
    </gi2mo:content>
    <dcterms:title>Card-lock for laboratory door</gi2mo:title>
    <dcterms:created>2010-02-23</gi2mo:created>
    <gi2mo:hasStatus rdf:resource="http://www.upm.es/gi2mo#Implemented"/>
    <gi2mo:hasComment rdf:resource="http://lab.gsi.dit.upm.es/apache/adam/gsideas/comment/054321"/>
    <gi2mo:hasComment rdf:resource="http://lab.gsi.dit.upm.es/apache/adam/gsideas/comment/054322"/>
    <gi2mo:hasCategory rdf:resource="http://lab.gsi.dit.upm.es/apache/adam/gsideas/category/General"/>
    <gi2mo:hasDuplicate rdf:resource="http://lab.gsi.dit.upm.es/apache/adam/gsideas/idea/02345"/>
  </rdf:Description>

For more examples please see a Gi2MO RDF export for a simple Idea Management System instance installed on lab GSI severs.

4. Cross-reference for Gi2MO classes and properties

Below see a comprehensive list of all Gi2MO classes, properties and their descriptions.

Class: gi2mo:AccessContolList

URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/ns#AccessContolList

AccessControlList - An instance of this class indicates the access rights for particular users to a resource that it is connected to (e.g. write privilages for a given idea or idea contest).

in-domain-of:: gi2mo:hasAccessRight; gi2mo:isAccessControlOf; gi2mo:hasMember
in-range-of:: gi2mo:hasAccessContol; gi2mo:isMemberOf

Gi2MO Ontology Specification

V0.6 - 12 December 2012

Abstract

Table of Contents

Appendixes

1 Introduction

1.1 Idea Management Systems and Innovation Management Process

1.2 The Semantic Web

1.3 What is Gi2MO for?

1.4 Ontology Extensions

2. Gi2MO ontology at a glance

3. Gi2MO ontology overview

3.1. Example

4. Cross-reference for Gi2MO classes and properties

Class: gi2mo:AccessContolList

Class: gi2mo:AccessType

Class: gi2mo:Attachment

Class: gi2mo:Category

Class: gi2mo:Comment

Class: gi2mo:Description

Class: gi2mo:Idea

Class: gi2mo:IdeaCategory

Class: gi2mo:IdeaContest

Class: gi2mo:IdeaContestStatus

Class: gi2mo:IdeaManagementSystem

Class: gi2mo:IdeaStatus

Class: gi2mo:IdeaTag

Class: gi2mo:Metric

Class: gi2mo:MinMaxRating

Class: gi2mo:Project

Class: gi2mo:Rating

Class: gi2mo:Review

Class: gi2mo:SubmissionMethod

Class: gi2mo:TextualReview

Class: gi2mo:UpDownRating

Class: gi2mo:User

Class: gi2mo:UserGroup

Class: gi2mo:VersionInfo

Property: gi2mo:accessRight

Property: gi2mo:complements

Property: gi2mo:content

Property: gi2mo:created

Property: gi2mo:currentVersion

Property: gi2mo:describesPartOf

Property: gi2mo:describesRelatedObject

Property: gi2mo:describesSameObject

Property: gi2mo:description

Property: gi2mo:details

Property: gi2mo:endDate

Property: gi2mo:excludes

Property: gi2mo:extends

Property: gi2mo:firstName

Property: gi2mo:follows

Property: gi2mo:fullname

Property: gi2mo:generalizes

Property: gi2mo:hasAccessContol

Property: gi2mo:hasAccessRight

Property: gi2mo:hasAttachment

Property: gi2mo:hasAvatar

Property: gi2mo:hasBinaryContent

Property: gi2mo:hasCategory

Property: gi2mo:hasComment

Property: gi2mo:hasContributor

Property: gi2mo:hasCreator

Property: gi2mo:hasDescription

Property: gi2mo:hasDuplicate

Property: gi2mo:hasEditor

Property: gi2mo:hasIdea

Property: gi2mo:hasIdeaContest

Property: gi2mo:hasImplementation

Property: gi2mo:hasInputEndpoint

Property: gi2mo:hasMember

Property: gi2mo:hasMetric

Property: gi2mo:hasNextVersion

Property: gi2mo:hasNextVersionInfo

Property: gi2mo:hasOrigin

Property: gi2mo:hasPreviousVersion

Property: gi2mo:hasPreviousVersionInfo

Property: gi2mo:hasRelated

Property: gi2mo:hasReview