Knowledge Mediation: A Procedure for the Cooperative Construction of Domain Ontologies

Up to now, there are few detailed proposals for the cooperative (and distributed) construction of ontologies (cf. [2]). The problem of how to establish a consensus and a shared conceptualization, especially when dealing with contradictory knowledge and conflicting interests has hardly been dealt with. We propose and evaluate a three-phased knowledge mediation procedure which is especially conceived to integrate different perspectives and information needs into one consensual ontology.

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