How to Design a Nuclear-Safety Ontology For Sharing Technical Knowledge over Communities

Abstract

Developing proper understanding of risks of nuclear technology over whole civil society is needed for addressing consensus-building on a nuclear-energy issue. To share technical knowledge and common awareness of the risks, web portal sites such as “directory search sites” on the Internet must be helpful if its directory, “ontology” is elaborated for the purpose. In this work we will profile the basis of an ontology of a civil-society organization by using a text-mining technique to compare their ontology with engineers' one derived from an educational curriculum for engineers. Based on the comparison we will then propose an ontology-designing strategy for sharing technical knowledge and common awareness within communities of civil society and engineers.