Collaborative ontology sharing and editing
This addresses the problem of inefficient knowledge sharing and reuse in collaborative ontology building, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing KB methods.
The paper tackles the challenge of collaboratively building a well-organized knowledge base (KB) by proposing a KB editing protocol that maintains consistency without requiring agreement on terminology or beliefs, aiming to provide more possibilities at no extra cost compared to mainstream approaches.
This article first lists reasons why - in the long term or when creating a new knowledge base (KB) for general knowledge sharing purposes - collaboratively building a well-organized KB does/can provide more possibilities, with on the whole no more costs, than the mainstream approach where knowledge creation and re-use involves searching, merging and creating (semi-)independent (relatively small) ontologies or semi-formal documents. The article lists elements required to achieve this and describes the main one: a KB editing protocol that keeps the KB free of automatically/manually detected inconsistencies while not forcing them to discuss or agree on terminology and beliefs nor requiring a selection committee.