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This documents specifies the architecture of the Ontology Management System.
The following image shows various components of the ontology management system and how they interact with each other.
Figure 1: Component view of the ontology management system
The frontend components are going to be plugins in the Eclipse platform, whereas the others will either be libraries or remote-access systems (see Open issues).
The following issues are currently under discussion and require resolution. In some cases, though, resolution may be postponed until after a prototype is implemented.
Metadata related to versioning must be stored alongside with the actual ontologies but it is unclear yet how that will be realised, whether through extending ORDI or through an existing place like non-functional properties of versioned elements.
Collaboration between multiple authors of one ontology may have two forms - synchronous communication of their editor tools, the authors effectively modifying the same instance of the ontology, with possible advanced features like chatting; or asynchronous communication, where authors edit their separate versions of the ontologies and merge any work done in parallel, with features like in-place commenting to make communication more efficient.
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The work is funded by the European Commission under the projects DIP, Knowledge Web, Ontoweb, SEKT, SWWS, Esperonto and h-TechSight; by Science Foundation Ireland under the DERI-Lion project; and by the Vienna city government under the CoOperate programme.
The authors would like to thank to all the members of the OMWG working group for their advices and inputs to this document.
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