Taxonomic approaches for People with Disabilities (PWDS) preontology construction: social elements in the light of Risael Nur

Risael Nur is a compilation series of thematic Quranic exegesis and it offers a tone of positive elements for the benefit of society including social development elements. This collection is important since it covers important topics that benefit the religious revival and societal wellbeing comprising the elements of social development that relate to the People with Disabilities (PWDs) community. This paper reports on the process of taxonomy conceptualization of the social development elements for the people with disabilities (PWDs) community from the perspectives of Risael Nur. In developing a robust ontology, building a taxonomy hierarchy is always a time-consuming process. A corpus analysis method which is qualitative according to the ontology construction method was used throughout the research. Its construction is based on the analysis and extraction of the main concepts and sub-concepts from the Risael Nur with a close reference to the Malaysian National Policies. At this stage of the research, 138 segments of Risael Nur’s texts integrated with the policy themes have been recognized as potential concepts to build the knowledge taxonomy hierarchy which produced the pre-ontology visualization content. Nevertheless, to the best of the researcher’s knowledge, there is no knowledge taxonomy ever built for the specific elements that existed in Risael Nur. A further contribution from the results will be beneficial as a knowledge base becoming the means of a society social support not only for society in general but to cater for the needs of minority groups specifically the People with Disabilities (PWDs) community. The taxonomy is essential to ease information access especially for the use of researchers and everyone at the authority level concomitantly as the platform for the People with Disabilities (PWDs) community support. These specific elements can be extracted and classified in organized manners simultaneously would be a fundamental reference to the policymakers as well as for educational use.