Design of a Collaborative Ontology Editing System for Enterprise Process Integration

The aim of the present study is to build a collaborative ontology editing platform and environments. In this paper ontology takes the role of process description and integration drivers. It is obviously that the process ontologies need to involve as more as possible knowledge and expertise of multiple experts who are usually geographically dispersed. As a result, a network based, extendable and flexible collaborative ontology editing platform is necessary. So, in this paper a grid framework based collaborative ontology editing platform was proposed, in which not only a ontology editing tool, communication tools, data or information sharing tools were integrated, but also any other needed resources or software could be integrated into the editing environment by adopting a remote screen sharing & operating technology and a plug & play resource sharing technology. In the paper, the framework, key technologies and application of the platform were discussed.