The motivation behind Margarida Ramos’ Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM) to visit L-Università ta’ Malta (UM) was closely aligned with ongoing discussions within Task 1.3 of the ENEOLI Action. In particular, the collaboration with Michael Rosner—Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence at UM and an active member of the Action—sought to bridge insights from Artificial Intelligence and Terminology studies to advance research on knowledge organization.

During the STSM, Ramos and Rosner engaged in in-depth discussions regarding complementary perspectives on the organization of knowledge. Building upon these exchanges, Ramos undertook the formal implementation of a series of outcomes stemming from the Task 1.3 work package, specifically focused on “Domain and Knowledge Organization”. For this purpose, the ontology editor Protégé was employed to construct an ontology in OWL 2, guided by the framework of Sablayrolles (2017) whose meta-terminology allows (1) the identification of 23 concepts classified as either types of lexical innovation results (i.e., lexical unit) or types of lexical innovation processes and – based on the latter – (2) the classification of the subdomains of Linguistics in which phenomena of lexical innovation are observed. 

The resulting ontology is intended to function as a complementary module to the ENEOLI Wikibase. Its logical and conceptual structuring enhances the organization of domain knowledge, thereby providing a robust foundation for informed decision-making in the modeling and development of the Wikibase’s conceptual schema.