Ontology: a tool to ease communication and reveal hidden knowledge -Application to nature-based solutions
2022
Guillaume, S | Forquet, N | Pueyo-Ros, J | Comas, J | Réduire, valoriser, réutiliser les ressources des eaux résiduaires (UR REVERSAAL) ; Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) | Instituto Catalán de Investigación del Agua = Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA) ; Universitat de Girona = University of Girona (UdG) | INRAE | RESEED | INSA/Lyon (National Institute of Applied Sciences) | INSA/Lyon (Laboratory Waste Water, Environment, Pollution)
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Show more [+] Less [-]English. The implementation of Nature-based Solutions (NBS) in cities has shifted to an integrated approach paradigm, raising the need for a shared, explicit and formal representation of knowledge on NBS in urban water management. A solution is building an ontology: it is a representation that merges data and expert knowledge, prevents miscommunication, handles heterogeneous data types and formats, and can draw inferences. The ontology we present here was focused on describing a water treatment chain (core ontology), classifying NBS (notably Treatment Wetlands (TW)) and treatment mechanisms. Its construction has mobilized expert knowledge, existing ontologies and explicitation of relations between concepts, sometimes from different knowledge domains: technical, geographical, socio-environmental. The ontology is not only for description of NBS in urban water management, but also for better future database structuration and modelling purposes (for predictions in a decision-making support tool). The ontology will improve from iterative expert feedback.
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