An Infrastructure for Managing Semantic Documents

Software Documentation is an important mean for stakeholders to collaborate in the software development context. However, several works point out that gathering relevant information from different documents can be so wearing that involved people may tend not to do it. Combining ontologies and documents by adding semantic annotations to documents can help diminish the burden of gathering information later on. However, this approach also adds an overhead in documentation, concerning the time spent on document annotation. In order to overcome some of these obstacles, we developed an infrastructure for managing semantic documents, combining semantic annotation on document templates, versioning data extracted from semantic documents and notifying interested people when extracted data has changed.