Supporting collaborative conceptualization tasks through a semantic wiki based platform

Resumo

The collective development of conceptual structures has not been satisfactorily addressed in the knowledge representation research literature. Nevertheless and assuming that a shared conceptualization of a given reality is the cornerstone to build semantic artifacts such as ontologies, this paper presents ConceptME, a platform that supports the collaborative modeling of conceptual models. The platform is based on semantic web technologies and proposes a set of functionalities for importing, creating, manipulating, discussing and documenting conceptual models that can act e.g., as the specification of a formal ontology. The platform is in a prototype state and is being tested and used in a research project1