In this 5-minute presentation I would present the efforts within the WUMM project to contribute to the development of a publicly available TRIZ ontology.

Due to time constraints, I cannot go into details of the associated modelling and data structures. In this respect, I refer to the conference paper, which has already been published with LIFIS-Online. Also, I cannot go into more detail about the Open Data infrastructure of the WUMM project, which consists of several repositories in our github organisational account, and refer to the github pages of our project.

Efforts to outline the TRIZ world conceptually and structurally have a longer history. First of all, there are various glossary projects, of which so far the thesaurus on the Altshuller web pages, as well as the glossaries by Souchkov, Matvienko, from the VDI standard 4521 and by Lippert/Cloutier are included in our combined glossary. 

Efforts to map the TRIZ world on a large scale are associated with different versions of a TRIZ Body of Knowledge, whose Russian version from 2007 and English version from 2012 show significant differences. Another attempt at such mapping is being made with the TRIZ Developer Summit Ontology Project, launched by a group of TRIZoviks around Andrej Kuryan and Michail Rubin in 2019. While the TRIZ Body of Knowledge brings together TRIZ fields and important literature references, the TRIZ Developer Summit Ontology Project is about shaping conceptualisations in the contexts of different parts of the „TRIZ world“. The main deficits of this ambitious project we see in the lack of multilingualism and in the fact that in their approach several definitions of the same term cannot coexist.

Both problems can be resolved with modern semantic technologies based on RDF. The potential of semantic technologies to represent conceptual relationships has been known at least since efforts in the IDM group in Strasbourg in 2007-2015 to develop an OWL model of IDM basics. Unfortunately, these modellings are only described in a few papers, but – according to our search – the model data is not publicly available in a digital format. The same applies to the TRIZ Ontology Project. Main results are publicly available as web texts at their web site but the primary data is not available in digital form for interested third parties outside their project as e.g. WUMM. 

Hence we started within the WUMM project to accompany these developments at an early stage and to re-model parts of them in our own format using well established Linked Open Data ontologies as FOAF, SKOS and ORG. This also outlines the concern of our WUMM Ontology Project. We do not take our own position in the dispute about the correct wording of different concepts, but rather strive to compile existing third-party approaches in a database that is organised according to modern Linked Open Data principles and is available in the public domain. 

The github mechanisms of fork and pull request are the basis on which other interested parties can also contribute directly to this work. A locally operated RDF store with a SPARQL endpoint allows the data to be searched and analysed using established Semantic Web standards. A local website shows prototypically how this data can be used. The code of this website, built with PHP and the EasyRDF library, is also publicly available on github and can thus be studied and reused. 

Thank you for your attention.