Collaborative protégé: enabling community-based authoring of ontologies
Tania Tudorache, Natalya Fridman Noy, Mark A. Musen · International Semantic Web Conference · 2008
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.