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Farquhar, A., Fikes, R., Pratt, W., and Rice, J. (1995) Collaborative ontology construction for information integration. Technical report, Stanford University.
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Collaborative Ontology Construction for Information Integration
Adam Farquhar, Richard Fikes, Wanda Pratt, James Rice
Abstract Information integration is enabled by having a precisely defined common terminology. We call this combination of terminology and definitions an ontology . We have developed a set of tools and services to support the process of achieving consensus on such a common shared ontologies by geographically distributed groups. These tools make use of the world­wide web to enable wide access and provide users with the ability to publish, browse, create, and edit ontologies stored on an ontology server . Users can quickly assemble a new ontology from a library of modules. We discuss how our system was constructed, how it exploits existing protocols and browsing tools, and our experience supporting hundreds of users. We describe applications using our tools to achieve consensus on ontologies and to integrate information. The ontology server may be accessed through the URL http://www­ksl­svc.stanford.edu:5915/
Keywords Ontology, world­wide web interfaces, interoperation, knowledge reuse
1. Introduction 2 1.1. The Need for Ontologies 2 1.2. The Ontology Server Architecture 4 2. The Ontolingua Inclusion Model 5 2.1. Assembling an Ontology 5 2.2. A Semantic Model for Ontology Inclusion 8 2.3. Natural Input and Output 9 2.4. Summary 11 3. The Ontology Development Environment 12 3.1. Browsing Ontologies 12 3.2. Creating and Editing Ontologies 14 3.3. Maintaining Ontologies 15 3.4. Using Ontologies 15 3.5. Sharing Ontologies 15 3.6. Collaboratively Developing Ontologies 16 3.7. Ease of Use 16 4. Infrastructure 16 4.1. Layering State on HTTP 18 4.2. Adding Sessions, Users, and Groups 21 4.3. Encoding Requests and Results in URLs 21 4.4. Summary 24 5. Results 24 6. Conclusion 30 Bibliography 32 ­ 1 ­ 1. Introduction 1.1. The Need for Ontologies In order for an agent to make statements and ask queries about a subject domain, it must use a conceptualization ...
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@techreport{farquhar95collaborativeOntology,
  author={A. Farquhar and R. Fikes and W. Pratt and J. Rice},
  title={Collaborative ontology construction for information integration},
  year={1995},
  institution={Stanford University},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/farquhar95collaborativeOntology.html}
}

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