GOMO - Governance Operational Model for Ontologies
Channel: Ontologies In Agriculture
Date: 28/07/2021

During this webinar, Alexander Garcia from BASF presents the Governance Operational Model for Ontologies, or GOMO, his team is developing. 
GOMO establishes an agile governance model for BASF ontologies. Its ultimate goal is to facilitate the development of interoperable ontologies that make it possible to build an enterprise knowledge graph. GOMO adheres to and builds upon related bodies of standards (e.g., w3c). GOMO operationalizes the structure of a network of empowered, fit-for-purpose teams having accountable roles (responsibility, authority), executes hands-on governance, mobilizes communities and actively engages with the ecosystem of users and applications.

Speaker: Alexander Garcia, BASF

Timeline
00:01:14    Presentation by Alexander Garcia, BASF

Questions
   - 00:31:02 – Can you further expand on the differences between ontologies versus business of ontologies? - Dharani Dhar Burra

   - 00:34:17 – Could it exist dependencies between QAs? Aaron Benitez

   - 00:36:45 – What if external ontologies don’t pass the GOMO standards? Aaron Benitez

   - 00:40:05 – A key barrier in maintaining an ontology is the effort invested in remapping due to evolution of terminology, especially in the life sciences/health. Is this an issue you are facing? Dermot Doyle

   - 00:41:40 - Why is BASF doing this ? Is BASF committed to play a role in ontology governance? Clement Jonquet

   - 00:47:30 - Is this material publicly available somewhere? Hervé Ménager

   - 00:48:25 - Is there any integration between WebProtégé and git repositories in your authoring/curation process? Hervé Ménager

   - 00:50:10 - How have you been maintaining this ontology community live, in terms of financial support? Soonho Kim

   - 00:50:40 - Have these practices been applied outside the user groups/communites in BASF? Daniel Garijo

   - 00:52:58 - Ontologies seems to be a way of linking the real world to IT. Shouldn’t we promote more ontologies in the IT community? Carlos Bittrich

   - 00:55:00 - What is your perspective on resolving conflicts between ontology curators that cause rifts and overlapping ontologies being produced as a result? Nicolas Matentzoglu

   - 00:58:45 - Can you expand on GOMO guidelines on rendering ontologies inter-operable with ontologies with external stakeholders? For instance - what/where/how should be the touchpoints be designed? Dharani Dhar Burra