A Progressive Formalization of Tacit Knowledge to Improve Semantic Expressiveness of Biodiversity Data

Abstract

The majority of biodiversity data available on the Web are structured, lacking unstructured features such as tacit knowledge, images, audios, text documents, among others. Tacit knowledge can be used to add more expressiveness to ontologies. To achieve that, the knowledge needs to be elicited and formalized and further incorporated into an ontology. This paper aims to present a Progressive Formalization Schema (PFS) to formalize tacit knowledge into different levels of granularity.