Personal Knowledge Ontology

This ontology is intended to act as a framework with which to represent an individual's personal knowledge.

Information on the development and uses of the ontology is described in the "explanation of the ontology" (taken from Chapter 8 of the PhD thesis "Personal Knowledge Techniques").

The ontology consists of:

1. 20 high-level objects
2. sub-types and examples of the high-level objects
3. relationships between the high-level objects

The 20 high-level objects are as follows:

• People
• Events
• Incidents
• Event Properties
• Life History
• Time Periods
• Actions
• States
• Transitions
• Characteristics
• Behaviours
• Decisions
• Aspirations
• Resources
• Abilities
• Beliefs
• Interests
• Places
• Jobs/Roles
• Relationships

The way these objects are related is summarised in the figure below.