Collaborative ontology sharing and editing
Philippe A. Martin

TL;DR
This paper advocates for collaborative ontology sharing and editing, proposing a protocol that maintains consistency without requiring consensus, aiming to enhance long-term knowledge base development.
Contribution
It introduces a novel KB editing protocol that ensures consistency without consensus, facilitating collaborative ontology development.
Findings
Proposes a protocol for consistent collaborative editing
Highlights benefits of shared ontology over independent ones
Addresses challenges in maintaining consistency
Abstract
This article first lists reasons why - in the long term or when creating a new knowledge base (KB) for general knowledge sharing purposes - collaboratively building a well-organized KB does/can provide more possibilities, with on the whole no more costs, than the mainstream approach where knowledge creation and re-use involves searching, merging and creating (semi-)independent (relatively small) ontologies or semi-formal documents. The article lists elements required to achieve this and describes the main one: a KB editing protocol that keeps the KB free of automatically/manually detected inconsistencies while not forcing them to discuss or agree on terminology and beliefs nor requiring a selection committee.
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Taxonomy
TopicsSemantic Web and Ontologies · Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies · Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services
