Virtual Activity Ontology Modeling: the Case of Sociocultural Knowledge Sharing

摘要

In the light of the rhythm of the current cultural mixing, we believe that in the long term, culture of African people in particular may disappear. Some new computational techniques (semantic web technologies) are needed to manage the large repositories of sociocultural data and to discover useful patterns and knowledge from them. This paper presents a virtual activity ontology modeling approach, in the case of sociocultural knowledge sharing and co-construction named Ontoshare. Our modeling approach is based on Engestrom's Human Activity Theory (HAT). With Ontoshare we designed how Internet users could build the content of a sociocultural Knowledge Management System (KMS); this vocabulary also organises data, facilitates information retrieval by introducing a semantic layer in social web platform, we plan to implement. The platform could be considered as a《collective memory》 which will allow communities to share, co-construct and discover sociocultural knowledge in the Cameroonian context.