The State of Multi-User Ontology Engineering.
Julian Seidenberg, Alan L. Rector · 2007
Abstract. Collaborative ontology engineering enables the creation of large complex ontologies. However, few projects successfully perform such multi-user ontology modeling. This paper gives an overview of ten different ontology engineering projects ’ infrastructure, architecture and workflows. It especially focuses on issues regarding collaborative ontology modeling. The survey leads on to a discussion of the relative advantages and disadvantages of asynchronous and synchronous modalities of multiuser editing. This discussion highlights issues, trends and problems in the field of multi-user ontology development. 1