Terminological Resources for Biologically Inspired Design and Biomimetics: Evaluation of the Potential for Ontology Reuse
Biomimetics aims to learn from living systems to develop innovative technical artefacts. As it transcends disciplinary boundaries and needs to integrate both biological and technological knowledge, a domain ontology for biomimetics would be highly desirable. So far, several terminological resources...
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| description | Biomimetics aims to learn from living systems to develop innovative technical artefacts. As it transcends disciplinary boundaries and needs to integrate both biological and technological knowledge, a domain ontology for biomimetics would be highly desirable. So far, several terminological resources have been designed to support the biomimetic development process. This paper examines nine resources for Biologically Inspired Design and biomimetics, including taxonomies, thesauri, and ontologies. Their benefits and limitations for structuring or organising biomimetic knowledge are evaluated against nine criteria, including availability, clarity, and machine readability. Our analysis shows that existing terminological resources have little to no potential for reuse due to inconsistent structure, ambiguous class labels, lack of standardisation, and lack of availability. Furthermore, no resource adequately represents biomimetic knowledge, as all resources suffer from limitations in content representation, reusability, or infrastructure. In particular, an adequate domain ontology for supporting biomimetic development is lacking; we discuss the desiderata for such an ontology. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-fdd1a44438b542fe8cdc9a752d693aa82025-01-24T13:24:41ZengMDPI AGBiomimetics2313-76732025-01-011013910.3390/biomimetics10010039Terminological Resources for Biologically Inspired Design and Biomimetics: Evaluation of the Potential for Ontology ReuseDilek Yargan0Ludger Jansen1Institute of Philosophy, University of Rostock, 18051 Rostock, GermanyInstitute of Philosophy, University of Rostock, 18051 Rostock, GermanyBiomimetics aims to learn from living systems to develop innovative technical artefacts. As it transcends disciplinary boundaries and needs to integrate both biological and technological knowledge, a domain ontology for biomimetics would be highly desirable. So far, several terminological resources have been designed to support the biomimetic development process. This paper examines nine resources for Biologically Inspired Design and biomimetics, including taxonomies, thesauri, and ontologies. Their benefits and limitations for structuring or organising biomimetic knowledge are evaluated against nine criteria, including availability, clarity, and machine readability. Our analysis shows that existing terminological resources have little to no potential for reuse due to inconsistent structure, ambiguous class labels, lack of standardisation, and lack of availability. Furthermore, no resource adequately represents biomimetic knowledge, as all resources suffer from limitations in content representation, reusability, or infrastructure. In particular, an adequate domain ontology for supporting biomimetic development is lacking; we discuss the desiderata for such an ontology.https://www.mdpi.com/2313-7673/10/1/39computer-aided biomimeticsknowledge representationontologytaxonomythesaurusfunction |
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| title | Terminological Resources for Biologically Inspired Design and Biomimetics: Evaluation of the Potential for Ontology Reuse |
| title_full | Terminological Resources for Biologically Inspired Design and Biomimetics: Evaluation of the Potential for Ontology Reuse |
| title_fullStr | Terminological Resources for Biologically Inspired Design and Biomimetics: Evaluation of the Potential for Ontology Reuse |
| title_full_unstemmed | Terminological Resources for Biologically Inspired Design and Biomimetics: Evaluation of the Potential for Ontology Reuse |
| title_short | Terminological Resources for Biologically Inspired Design and Biomimetics: Evaluation of the Potential for Ontology Reuse |
| title_sort | terminological resources for biologically inspired design and biomimetics evaluation of the potential for ontology reuse |
| topic | computer-aided biomimetics knowledge representation ontology taxonomy thesaurus function |
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