A Platform for Collaborative Light Weight Ontology Development

The vision of enabling the machines to fully understand and process the underlying content over the web pages seems to be convincing with the advancement in semantic web technology. The social web is evolving and facilitates the collaborative creation of content and information sharing, keeping the consensus of common people. The main challenge of the social web is to integrate different data types and allow interoperability between various systems due to the lack of standards. Ontology development allows knowledge representation and management, but it is confined to the perspective of a few ontology engineers and not within easy reach of a common user. Ontology development should allow consensus from different people for representing any domain for better interoperability among various useful applications. For faster development, ontology engineering should be a collaborative process. This paper proposed an easy-to-use, simple and collaborative light weight ontology development system for the common user to expedite the ontology engineering process and overcome the said challenges.