CONGAS: A COllaborative Ontology Development Framework Based on Named GrAphS

  • Authors:

  • Daniele Bagni;Marco Cappella;Maria Teresa Pazienza;Armando Stellato

  • Affiliations:

  • ART Group, Dept. of Computer Science, Systems and Production, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy 00133;ART Group, Dept. of Computer Science, Systems and Production, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy 00133;ART Group, Dept. of Computer Science, Systems and Production, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy 00133;ART Group, Dept. of Computer Science, Systems and Production, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy 00133

  • Venue:
  • AI*IA '09: Proceedings of the XIth International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence Reggio Emilia on Emergent Perspectives in Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The process of ontology development involves a range of skills and know-how often requiring team work of different people, each of them with his own way of contributing to the definition and formalization of the domain representation. For this reason, collaborative development is an important feature for ontology editing tools, and should take into account the different characteristics of team participants, provide them with a dedicated working environment allowing to express their ideas and creativity, still protecting integrity of the shared work. In this paper we present CONGAS, a collaborative version of the Knowledge Management and Acquisition platform Semantic Turkey which, exploiting the potentialities brought by recent introduction of context management into RDF triple graphs, offers a collaborative environment where proposals for ontology evolution can emerge and coexist, be evaluated by team users, trusted across different perspectives and eventually converged into the main development stream.