{"product_id":"collaboration-support-for-the-distributed-development-of-ontologies-von-fan-bai","title":"Collaboration Support for the Distributed Development of Ontologies","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe development of ontologies which aims at capturing knowledge as a formal structural framework, is an important foundation for a wide range of applications. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince ontology development is usually a collaborative activity which may span a long period of time, it is critical to provide developers with a suitable development environment that supports collaboration in a flexible manner and that facilitates the building of robust and accurate ontologies. In this dissertation, the author focusses his effort on providing an easy-to-use collaborative ontology development environment that supports both synchronous and asynchronous collaborative activities. Two prototype systems were developed to reach the goal based on an extensive requirement study.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first prototype system servers numerous functions in supporting synchronized cooperation. A Java based application provides developers with several functions. For example, with the help of group-awareness and a locking mechanism, involved developers become aware of actions from other users, which enables them to work without conflict in terms of editing the same ontology resources.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on the experiences gathered from implementing the first prototype system, the requirement of supporting asynchronous cooperation was studied. A version control system especially in the fields of coping with ontology data structure is a central component to satisfy the requirement. This second approach primarily supports local workspaces that can be synchronized with a central server-based ontology store and is capable of controlling versions on the level of individual ontology resources. Although working in their own workspace ontology developers can achieve a consensual shared ontology through committing, updating and merging activities. Each version of an ontology resource will be preserved in the form of a snapshot. The evolution of either a single ontology resource or the entire ontology can further be illustrated to developers in an intuitive, visual way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783844102284\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783844102284","offer_id":39451083669597,"sku":"9783844102284","price":43.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/8fc420c5-69e5-4730-a469-95a5c5aec4ac.jpg?v=1775627308","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/collaboration-support-for-the-distributed-development-of-ontologies-von-fan-bai","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}