The Ontolingua Server: a tool for collaborative ontology construction (original) (raw)
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1997
Reusable ontologies are becoming increasingly important for tasks such as information integration, knowledge-level interoperation, and knowledgebase development. We have developed a set of tools and services to support the process of achieving consensus on common shared ontologies by geographically distributed groups. These tools make use of the worldwide web to enable wide access and provide users with the ability to publish, browse, create, and edit ontologies stored on an ontology server. Users can quickly assemble a new ontology from a library of modules. We discuss how our system was constructed, how it exploits existing protocols and browsing tools, and our experience supporting hundreds of users. We describe applications using our tools to achieve consensus on ontologies and to integrate information. The Ontolingua Server may be accessed through the URL
Collaborative Ontology Construction for Information Integration
2007
Information integration is enabled by having a precisely defined common terminology. We call this combination of terminology and definitions an ontology . We have developed a set of tools and services to support the process of achieving consensus on such a common shared ontologies by geographically distributed groups. These tools make use of the world-wide web to enable wide access and provide users with the ability to publish, browse, create, and edit ontologies stored on an ontology server. Users can quickly assemble a new ontology from a library of modules. We discuss how our system was constructed, how it exploits existing protocols and browsing tools, and our experience supporting hundreds of users. We describe applications using our tools to achieve consensus on ontologies and to integrate information. The ontology server may be accessed through the URL http://www-ksl-svc.stanford.edu:5915/
1 ONTOCINC Server : A Web-based Environment for Collaborative Construction of Ontologies
2002
Coalition operations will become more and more important in the future. Interactions between coalition participants require mechanisms to facilitate the exchange of information. In this context, it is necessary to address interoperability issues so that coalition information can be effectively shared and exploited. In our research, we consider ontologies as a key component to provide a shared understanding of a domain and facilitate knowledge level interoperability among heterogeneous information sources. In this paper, we describe the specific requirements of coalition operations for information exchange and the methodology we proposed to the collaborative development of ontologies to satisfy these requirements. Then, we present the ontology engineering web-based environment we designed and implemented, called the OntoCINC Server. Finally, we present the lessons learned in applying the methodology within a coalition initiative. 2. Introduction In the Canadian Forces, worldwide cont...
A Collaborative Platform for Multilingual Ontology Development
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, International Journal of Social, Behavioral, Educational, Economic, Business and Industrial Engineering, 2015
Ontologies provide a common understanding of a specific domain of interest that can be communicated between people and used as background knowledge for automated reasoning in a wide range of applications. In this paper we address the design of multilingual ontologies following well-defined knowledge engineering methodologies with the support of novel collaborative development approaches. In particular, we present a collaborative platform which allows ontologies to be developed incrementally in multiple languages. This is made possible via an appropriate mapping between language independent concepts and one lexicalization per language (or a lexical gap in case such lexicalization does not exist). The collaborative platform has been designed to support the development of the Universal Knowledge Core, a multilingual ontology currently in English, Italian, Chinese, Mongolian, Hindi and Bangladeshi. Its design follows a workflow-based development methodology that models resources as a set of collaborative objects and assigns customizable workflows to build and maintain each collaborative object in a community driven manner, with extensive support of modern web 2.0 social and collaborative features.
This paper presents a proposal and a call for participation in the long-range development of an open, multifunctional, multilingual system for integrated access to many kinds of ontological and lexical knowledge that would support, among many other functions, software localization and CASE tool databases for multinational development teams. A Sem-Web system would provide integrated access to existing knowledge bases through a common interface that would search several knowledge bases and collate the data into a common format defined by the SemWeb template. It would also allow the incremen-tal development of a common integrated distributed knowledge base to be shared by a work group or worldwide. A common knowledge base would support collaboration in ontological and lexical projects. Over time, it could absorb data from other knowledge bases, allowing for tighter integration than common interface access. The system would be usable by many levels of users.
Toward Distributed Use of Large-Scale Ontologies t
1996
Large scale knowledge bases systems are difficult and expensive to construct. If we could share knowledge across systems, costs would be reduced. However, because knowledge bases are typically constructed from scratch, each with their own idiosyncratic structure, sharing is difficult. Recent research has focused on the use of ontologies to promote sharing. An ontology is a hierarchically structured set of terms for describing a domain that can be used as a skeletal foundation for a knowledge base. If two knowledge bases are built on a common ontology, knowledge can be more readily shared, since they share a common underlying structure. This paper outlines a set of desiderata for ontologies, and then describes how we have used a large-scale (50,000+ concept) ontology develop a specialized, domain-specific ontology semiautomatically. We then discuss the relation between ontologies and the process of developing a system, arguing that to be useful, an ontology needs to be created as a "living document", whose development is tightly integrated with the system's. We conclude with a discussion of Web-based ontology tools we are developing to support this approach.
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2010
The multilingual aspects which characterize the (Semantic) Web and the constant demand for more understandable and easy-to-share forms of knowledge representation, push for a more “linguistically aware” approach to ontology development and foresees an environment where formal semantics could coexist with natural language, contributing to improve “shareability” of the content they describe.
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Collaborative development of a shared or standardized ontology presents unique issues in workflow, version control, testing, and quality control. These challenges are similar to challenges faced in large-scale collaborative software development. We have taken this idea as the basis of a collaborative ontology development platform based on familiar software tools, including Continuous Integration platforms, version control systems, testing platforms, and review workflows. We have implemented these using open-source versions of each of these tools, and packaged them into a full-service collaborative platform for collaborative ontology development. This platform has been used in the development of FIBO, the Financial Industry Business Ontology, an ongoing collaborative effort that has been developing and maintaining a set of ontologies for over a decade. The platform is open-source and is being used in other projects beyond FIBO. We hope to continue this trend and improve the state of ...