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Journal of Integrative Agriculture  2012, Vol. 11 Issue (5): 731-740    DOI: 10.1016/S1671-2927(00)8594
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A Review and Prospects on Collaborative Ontology Editing Tools
 XIAN Guo-jian, ZHAO Rui-xue  
Agricultural Information Institution, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, P.R.China
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摘要  Building ontology is a fundamental but also hard work. Collaborative ontology editing tools can make ontology development more efficiently. In this paper, the important features of collaborative ontology development were analyzed, and several tools such as AGROVOC Concept Server Workbench (ACSW), Collaborative Protégé and WebProtégé were studied. Besides, some comparisons among them from several aspects were made and some prospects for the further improvement of these tools were given. Finally, we show it is a good way to build agricultural ontology with these tools collaboratively and simultaneously.

Abstract  Building ontology is a fundamental but also hard work. Collaborative ontology editing tools can make ontology development more efficiently. In this paper, the important features of collaborative ontology development were analyzed, and several tools such as AGROVOC Concept Server Workbench (ACSW), Collaborative Protégé and WebProtégé were studied. Besides, some comparisons among them from several aspects were made and some prospects for the further improvement of these tools were given. Finally, we show it is a good way to build agricultural ontology with these tools collaboratively and simultaneously.
Keywords:  collaborative ontology editing      agricultural ontology      ACSW      Collaborative Protégé      WebProtégé  
Received: 28 June 2011   Accepted:
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This project was supported by the National Key Technology Research and Development Program of China (2011BAH10B06).

Corresponding Authors:  Correspondence ZHAO Rui-xue, E-mail: zhaorx@mail.caas.net.cn     E-mail:  zhaorx@mail.caas.net.cn
About author:  XIAN Guo-jian, E-mail: xgj@mail.caas.net.cn;

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XIAN Guo-jian, ZHAO Rui-xue. 2012. A Review and Prospects on Collaborative Ontology Editing Tools. Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 11(5): 731-740.

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