Framing ICT4D research using activity theory: a match between the ICT4D field and theory?

S Karanasios - Information Technologies & International …, 2014 - itidjournal.org
Despite the advancement of the ICT for Development (ICT4D) field over the last decade, it
has been argued that its knowledge and theoretical contribution has been weak. It has also …

Making sense of digital traces: An activity theory driven ontological approach

S Karanasios, D Thakker, L Lau, D Allen… - Journal of the …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Social web content such as blogs, videos, and other user‐generated content present a vast
source of rich “digital‐traces” of individuals' experiences. The use of digital traces to provide …

DABGEO: A reusable and usable global energy ontology for the energy domain

J Cuenca, F Larrinaga, E Curry - Journal of Web Semantics, 2020 - Elsevier
The heterogeneity of energy ontologies hinders the interoperability between ontology-based
energy management applications to perform a large-scale energy management. Thus, there …

Requirements for big data analytics supporting decision making: A sensemaking perspective

L Lau, F Yang-Turner, N Karacapilidis - Mastering Data-Intensive …, 2014 - Springer
Big data analytics requires technologies to efficiently process large quantities of data.
Moreover, especially in decision making, it not only requires individual intellectual …

An empirically-based framework for ontology modularisation

ZC Khan, CM Keet - Applied Ontology, 2015 - content.iospress.com
Modularity is being increasingly used as an approach to solve for the information overload
problem in ontologies. It eases cognitive complexity for humans, and computational …

Aspect-oriented ontologies: dynamic modularization using ontological metamodeling

R Schäfermeier, A Paschke - Formal Ontology in Information …, 2014 - ebooks.iospress.nl
In this paper, we propose a dynamic and flexible approach to ontology modularization
inspired by the aspect-oriented programming paradigm in software development. Aspect …

Taming digital traces for informal learning: a semantic-driven approach

D Thakker, D Despotakis, V Dimitrova, L Lau… - 21st Century Learning for …, 2012 - Springer
Modern learning models require linking experiences in training environments with
experiences in the real-world. However, data about real-world experiences is notoriously …

[PDF][PDF] Socio-technical ontology development for modelling sensemaking in heterogeneous domains

D Thakker, F Yang-Turner, L Lau… - Proceedings of OCAS …, 2011 - ceur-ws.org
Sensemaking is often associated with processing large or complex amount of data obtained
from diverse and distributed sources. With information explosion from the web, sensemaking …

MODDALS methodology for designing layered ontology structures

J Cuenca, F Larrinaga, E Curry - Applied Ontology, 2020 - content.iospress.com
Global ontologies include common vocabularies to provide interoperability among different
applications. These ontologies require a balance of reusability-usability to minimise the …

[PDF][PDF] Experiences on applying SPL Engineering Techniques to Design a (Re) usable Ontology in the Energy Domain.

J Cuenca, F Larrinaga, E Curry - SEKE, 2019 - researchgate.net
Global ontologies must provide a balance of reusability-usability to minimize the ontology
reuse effort in different applications. To achieve this balance, ontology design methods focus …