Scientific report for STSM within the COST Action FP0804 FORSYS

Semantic wiki on Decision Support Systems for

Forest Management

Period: 20/01/2013 to 25/01/2013

STSM Applicants:

● Alexandra Fonseca Marques, Inesc Porto, alexandra.s.marques@inescporto.pt

Host: Professor Christian Rosset, Bern University of Applied Sciences, School of Agricultural,

Forest and Food Sciences, christian.rosset@bfh.ch

1. Purpose of the visitThe main purpose of this STSM was to pursue with the work of developing a semantic wiki for

the FORSYS project. Special attention goes to the definition of the wiki structure accounting for

all the FORSYS working domains (DSS, case studies, guidelines, country reports), reviewing

the wiki content and identifying the relevant queries.

Figure 1: Roadmap for the STSM

2. Description on the activities and the results carried

out during the STSM

A. Hand-on experiment in defining the wiki structure using the

ConceptMe

Hands-on experiment description:

Results:

● Concept Models of Dominique + Proof of concept in the wiki

● Concept Models of Group 1 and 2

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(ConceptMe_more_extended_model_not_only_categories.PNG)

● Default Model: initial consolidated version

● Default Model final version: including DSS, Lessons, Case, CR/FMP type

(ConceptMe_DSS_LL_CR_CS_Final.PNG)

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● Paper prototyping

DSS form

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Lessons

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Country reports/FMPlanning problem

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Case study:

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● Consolidated Property Sheet

● Updated script

● New semantic wiki structure implemented

Rough evaluation of the experiment:

Advantages Disadvantages

● Clarify concepts within a group andidentify problems/Clarify the way to

collaborate, to elaborate a model● Helps reaching consensus in a

relatively short time● Helps approaching a complex model

and in an hierarchical way: firstdefining the categories, then detailingthe problems

● Easy to use● Share models among the group: good

to have a common starting point andthen continue

● Seems to have the potential tomanage and map the content of a wiki

● The definition on how to integrateConceptMe and the wiki should be

defined in the first step and not in thecourse of the model-> this isimportant to define the futureexperiment

○ Not obvious to find a way toformalize the process in orderto develop a useful model (1model? a combination ofmodels, pre-defined relations?,levels of concepts?)

● Lack of important functionalitiesrelated with the GUI

● Not obvious how to connet to thesemantic wiki (nor the methodologynor the tool)

● Difficult to start from the scratch

List of suggestions about improvements in the ConceptMe:

Basic functionalities:

● pan

● rename concepts and relationships (without having to erase these items previously)

● expand/reduce the content of the model (e.g. like MindMap)

● undo/redo

● print

● copy of model (without having to export it and import it back)

Setting standards at model level:

● list of relationship types (has, is a, is part of, …), which can be set at the model level

● list of color related to the type of concept (e.g. blue: category in semantic wiki, green:

property in semantic wiki)

Merging of models:

● highlight the differences with a color codification system

● make it possible to grasp different levels of detail (while defining similar concept names

during the merging process: one concept name could be set similar to more than one

concept names of the other models > hierarchical relationship > e.g. temporal scale <>

short term + medium term + long term)

● button merge is at the top of the webpage and no more visible at the end of the matching

process between the concept names (position at the bottom of the webpage)

B. Maps ConceptMe->Wiki

Why ConceptMe:

Conceptual aspects: (Christian)

Technical aspects

Results:

New deeper semantic structure for the entire wiki the pages generated automatically based on a

script that uses Property sheet/ConceptMe model

C. Content of the wikiFinalise the semantic structure of the wiki based on the ConceptMe/property sheet model (Jussi)

DSS

● Will have new DSS descriptions due to the migration of CR results;

● No advances on migrating DSS non-semantic-> semantic

● Need to migrate existing DSS semantic -> new semantic

Country Reports/Problem types

● Input file will be ready this week

● Need to migrate directly to wiki data base (Jussi)

Case studies

● Case study task force will be responsible for inputting date

● Need to migrate existing CS semantic -> new semantic

Lessons learned

● Need to consolidate lessons-learned from the article into an excel sheet (Alexandra)

● Need migrate directly to wiki data base (Jussi)

E. Queries

F. Prepare article on Forsys Semantic wiki (Christian)

G. Article ConceptMe->Wiki (Christian)

List of co-authors:

Comment of Lucas article structure

Proposal for a new experiment (article 2)