Check out the recent arxiv preprint “Extending the design space of ontologization practices: Using bCLEARer as an example” co-authored by Chris Partridge, Andrew Mitchell, Sergio de Cesare, and myself.

We outline how the design space for the ontologization process is richer than current practice would suggest. We investigate the possibility of designing a range of radically new practices, providing examples of the new practices from Chris’s work over the last three decades with an outlier methodology: bCLEARer. We also suggest that setting an evolutionary context for ontologization helps one to better understand the nature of these new practices by positioning digitalization (the evolutionary emergence of computing technologies) as the latest step in a long evolutionary trail of information transitions.