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Institutional ontology for conceptual modeling
Journal of Information Technology ( IF 5.6 ) Pub Date : 2018-06-01 , DOI: 10.1057/s41265-018-0053-2
Owen Eriksson 1 , Paul Johannesson 2 , Maria Bergholtz 2
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Conceptual models are intended to capture knowledge about the world. Hence, the design of conceptual models could be informed by theories about what entities exist in the world and how they are constituted. Further, a common assumption within the field of conceptual modeling is that conceptual models and information systems describe entities in the real world, outside the systems. An alternative view is provided by an ontological commitment that recognizes that the institutional world is constructed through language use and the creation of institutional facts. Such an ontological commitment implies that there is an institutional reality, which, to a great extent, is constructed using information infrastructures. Accordingly, conceptual models have not only a descriptive role but also a prescriptive one, meaning that modelers set up a framework of rules that restrict and enable people to construct institutional reality using information infrastructures. Understanding the prescriptive role of conceptual models may revive the area of conceptual modeling in the information systems research community. Reviving conceptual modeling through institutional modeling is motivated by the effect that implemented conceptual models have on information infrastructures and institutions. The purpose of this article is to propose an institutional ontology that can support the design of information infrastructures. The ontology is theoretically informed by institutional theory and a communicative perspective on information systems design, as well as being empirically based on several case studies. It is illustrated using a case study in the welfare sector. A number of guidelines for modeling institutional reality are also proposed.

中文翻译:

概念建模的制度本体

概念模型旨在获取有关世界的知识。因此,概念模型的设计可以通过关于世界上存在哪些实体以及它们如何构成的理论来提供信息。此外,概念建模领域内的一个常见假设是概念模型和信息系统描述现实世界中的实体,在系统之外。另一种观点由本体论承诺提供,该承诺承认制度世界是通过语言使用和制度事实的创造来构建的。这种本体论承诺意味着存在一种制度现实,它在很大程度上是利用信息基础设施构建的。因此,概念模型不仅具有描述性作用,而且具有规定性作用,这意味着建模者建立了一个规则框架,限制和使人们能够使用信息基础设施构建制度现实。理解概念模型的规范作用可能会重振信息系统研究社区中的概念建模领域。通过制度建模复兴概念建模的动机是实施的概念模型对信息基础设施和制度的影响。本文的目的是提出一个可以支持信息基础设施设计的制度本体。本体在理论上受到制度理论和信息系统设计的交流观点的启发,并且在经验上基于几个案例研究。使用福利部门的案例研究说明了这一点。
更新日期:2018-06-01
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