Designing the information organization from ontological perspective

Abstract

Actors act on the organization's world. Information that is needed for performing coordinating actions of those actors is equal to factual knowledge that consists of either facts that constitute the world's states or facts that are derived from these original facts. That means that business actors which are directly responsible for production results are indirectly responsible for the information that is based on their production results. This paper proposes a way of working by which the design of the ontological model of the information organization is based on the ontological model of the business organization. Central to the proposed approach is the concept of responsibility. This is a fundamentally different approach than many current approaches in practice to which information is usually extracted from a database of data and from whom nobody has any idea of the accountability regarding the reliability, timeliness, etc. of the data. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.