Abstract
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. In this paper, we discuss requirements for supporting collaborative ontology development and present Collaborative Protégé-a tool that supports many of these requirements, such as discussions integrated with ontology-editing process, chats, and annotations of changes and ontology components. We have evaluated Collaborative Protégé in the context of ontology development in an ongoing large-scale biomedical project that actively uses ontologies at the VA Palo Alto Healthcare System. Users have found the new tool effective as an environment for carrying out discussions and for recording references for the information sources and design rationale. © 2008 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
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Tudorache, T., Noy, N. F., Tu, S., & Musen, M. A. (2008). Supporting collaborative ontology development in Protégé. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 5318 LNCS, pp. 17–32). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88564-1_2
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