Semantic Web Dog Food

Presented at: 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2008)

by Tania Tudorache, Natasha F. Noy, Mark A. Musen

Ontologies are becoming so large in their coverage that no single person or a small group of people can develop them effectively and ontology development becomes a community-based enterprise. We present Collaborative Protege - an extension of the Protege ontology editor that we have designed specifically to support the collaboration process for a community of users. During the ontology-development process, Collaborative Protege allows users to hold discussions about the ontology components and changes using typed annotations; it tracks the change history of the ontology entities; it provides a chat and search functionality. Users edit simultaneously an ontology stored in a common repository. All changes made by a user are seen immediately by other users. Collaborative Protege is open source and distributed with the full installation of Protege.

Keywords: Protege, Semantic Web, collaboration, ontology development, ontology editing

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