Ontogenesis

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Ontogenesis is a Knowledge Blog for descriptive, tutorial and explanatory material about building, using and maintaining ontologies, as well as the social processes and technology that support this.

Ontogenesis is now one year old, and features over 20 articles written by leading academics, and has attracted over 17,000 page reads. Articles are peer-reviewed. Following publication as reviewed, articles are stable and can be cited by stable URL or DOI. Ontogenesis is now archived by the British Library as part of the UK Web Archive and is indexed by Google Scholar.

The initial idea for Ontogenesis came from Phillip Lord. You can read the original manifesto that we wrote, describing the purpose of this blog. Ontogenesis is the first and main example of a Knowledgeblog, a flexible and light-weight process for scientific publication. It has recieved funding from JISC.

We are currently open to submissions. Please contact us if you want further information, or would like to offer articles for publication.