ebXMLRegistry Semantic Content Management SC

Use Case
UC ID: 3 Priority (L/M/H) : High
Use Case : Collaborative ontology development
Description :  Ontologies often need to be developed collaboratively by a group of geographically dispersed Domain Experts within a certain domain.
Each Domain Experts builds a different sub-graphs (networks) of the ontology. Each Domain Expert may review the ontology sub-graphs
produced by others. Each Domain Expert may edit ontology sub-graphs that they or another Domain Expert created with appropriate access control.
Actors :
  • Domain Expert
 
Pre-Conditions: none Post-Conditions: none
Basic Flow :
  • Domain expert #1 publishes an ontology sub-graph
  • Domain expert #2 publishes another ontology sub-graph and connects it to first sub-graph
  • Domain expert #1 and #2 review each others sub-graphs
  • Domain expert #1 and #2 edits sub-graphs to address comments or fix errors
Alternate Flow : none
Exceptions : none
Includes Use Cases: None Special Requirements: None
Assumptions:
  • Proper access control policies are defined for collboration on shared ontology content
  • Inter-connected ontology sub-graphs may be spread across multiple registries that may or may not be federated
Use Case Relationships: None Issues : none
Examples:

proposer Farrukh.Najmi@Sun.COM