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A methodology for asynchronous multi-user editing of semantic web ontologies

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Current tools, techniques and methodologies for multi-user editing of semantic web ontologies are inadequate. The vast majority of ontologies are maintained by single individuals. However, single user access is increasingly becoming a bottleneck as these ontologies grow in size. We therefore suggest a technique and for locking segments of description logic ontologies for multi-user editing. This technique fits into a methodology for ontology editing in which multiple ontology engineers concurrently lock, extract, modify, error-check and re-merge individual segments of a large ontology. The technique aims to provide a pragmatic compromise between a very restrictive approach that might offer complete error protection but make useful multi-user interactions impossible and a wide-open anything-goes editing paradigm which offers little to no protection.

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    1. concurrency
    2. error mitigation
    3. knowledge representation
    4. methodology
    5. multi-user editing
    6. ontology
    7. semantic web

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