Why and how to engage expert stakeholders in ontology development: insights from social and behavioural sciences

• Published in: Journal of biomedical semantics Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 4 - 8
• Main Authors: Norris, Emma, Hastings, Janna, Marques, Marta M., Mutlu, Ailbhe N. Finnerty, Zink, Silje, Michie, Susan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central 23.03.2021; BMC
• Subjects: Behavioral Sciences; Classification; Classification systems; Collaboration; Cooperation; Domains; Feedback; Intervention; Ontology; Ontology development; Questionnaires; Review; Science; Social sciences; Stakeholders; Subject specialists; Taxonomy; Ontology development; Stakeholders; Feedback; Social sciences

Incorporating the feedback of expert stakeholders in ontology development is important to ensure content is appropriate, comprehensive, meets community needs and is interoperable with other ontologies and classification systems. However, domain experts are often not formally engaged in ontology deve...