Body of Knowledge (BOK)

A Body of Knowledge (BOK) is a knowledge data base for a professional domain.

• Context:
  • It can (typically) be created by the relevant learned society or professional association.
• Example(s):
  • Project Management (PMBOK).
• Counter-Example(s):
  • Common Sense Knowledge.
  • Domain-Specific Knowledge.
• See: Learned Society, Professional Association.

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References

2014

• (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_of_Knowledge Retrieved:2014-8-3.
  • A body of knowledge (BOK or BoK) is the complete set of concepts, terms and activities that make up a professional domain, as defined by the relevant learned society or professional association. A body of knowledge is the accepted ontology for a specific domain. A BOK is more than simply a collection of terms; a professional reading list; a library; a website or a collection of websites; a description of professional functions; or even a collection of information.

2007

• (Obitko, 2007) ⇒ Marek Obitko. (2007). “Translations between Ontologies in Multi-Agent Systems", Ph.D. dissertation, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague. http://obitko.com/tutorials/ontologies-semantic-web/body-of-knowledge.html
  • QUOTE: Sometimes, ontology is defined as a body of knowledge describing some domain, typically a common sense knowledge domain, using a representation vocabulary as described above. In this case, an ontology is not only the vocabulary, but the whole "upper" knowledge base (including the vocabulary that is used to describe this knowledge base).

    The typical example is the project CYC that defines its knowledge base as an ontology for any other knowledge based system. CYC is the name of a very large, multi-contextual knowledge base and inference engine. CYC is an early attempt to do symbolic AI on a massive scaleby capturing common knowledge that is required to do tasks that are trivial for people, but very hard for computers. All of the knowledge in CYC is represented declaratively in the form of logical assertions. CYC contains over 400,000 significant assertions, which include simple statements of facts, rules about what conclusions to draw if certain statements of facts are satisfied, and rules about how to reason with certain types of facts and rules. New conclusions are derived by the inference engine using deductive reasoning. The CYC common sense knowledge can be used as a foundation of a knowledge base for any knowledge intensive system. In this sense, this body of knowledge can be viewed as an ontology of the knowledge base of the system.

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