The AKT Reference Ontology has been designed to support the AKT-2 demonstrator ("AKTive Portal"), and subsequent activities concerning Scientific Knowledge Management within the EPSRC Advanced Knowledge Technologies Project.
The ontology, cleaned and codified by Enrico Motta from the results of corss-project workshops in Nov 2001, is organised into two parts, as detailed by Enrico in his note below.
The ontologies are currently available in OCML and Ontolingua, and include a 
link from each definition that will enable you to browse the relevant entry in the ontology within the WebOnto environment (launches a Java applet0.
The process of collaboratively designing and revising this ontology is itself an object of research interest for AKT. The versions below are currently under discussion and revision within the AKT project, using a variety of collaboration toolssuch as D3E and Compendium, about which we will report in future publications.
About the ontologies
AKT-SUPPORT-ONTOLOGY This contains 'infrastructure' definitions which are needed to model our domain. It consists of the following files: foundations. This contains a mini-top-level. Over the course of teh project we may want to extend this and link to existing top levels (SUO, HPKB, CYC, Sowa, Guarino, etc.) basic. A number of definitions, which provide the basic representational layer to define entities in the ontology. Here we include basic data types, such as strings, lists, sets and numbers, as well as basic logical concepts, such as FUNCTION and RELATION. The advantage of expliciting including here the representational layerfor the set of AKT ontologies is that these become completely self-contained: all the notions required to specify any concept in the ontology are themselves to be found in the ontologies frames. Some basic notions to talk about classes, instances, etc.. load. Definition of the ontology time. A mimimalist time ontology. AKTIVE-PORTAL-ONTOLOGY This ontology uses AKT-SUPPORT-ONTOLOGY and models the 'domain' concepts (people, organizations, etc..). It comprises docs: To model publications events: To model events load: Ontology definition organizations: To model people and organizations projects: To model projects research-areas: To model research areas techs: To model technologies
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AKT Support Ontology: 
AKTive Portal Ontology: