Ontology for Computational Design Computational Methods versus Cultural Processes

In the ongoing taxonomy and ontology work in and about the computational design domain varying progress has been made. While in the ontology work oriented towards computational use within the domain a human-based approach appears favored, in the ontology work focused on the research domain the focus seems to be on computational approaches. This paper proposes to extend the human-based approach to the construction of an online research domain ontology in order to utilize inter-human collaboration to capture the fundamentally cultural phenomenon of language or vocabulary and its agreed upon meaning. Online availability would allow referencing for tagging of contents, for example for use in keyword lists, or for computational categorization of collections. Such an effort would add a research community forum for continued discourse about the research domain.