Ontology of the Common Digital Space of Scientific Knowledge

Abstract

The rapid development of information technologies and the avalanche growing of scientific information volumes necessitated the transition to a semantically significant representation of scientific knowledge extracted from information in the digital environment, and their organization in the form of a Common digital space of scientific knowledge (CDSSK). Each field of science has its own specifics, and it's scientific knowledge can form its own subspace. In modern conditions, it is necessary to develop universal approaches to the storage and presentation of scientific knowledge, thereby ensuring the integration of individual subspaces into a single whole. The first step towards the implementation of these approaches should be the development of the CDSSK ontology as a multi-level system of concepts describing the resources and objects of subject areas, terms and relationships between them, characterized by an open hierarchical and dynamic structuring, oriented both to store existing knowledge and to extract new ones.