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ContentCVS Plugin
Overview
ContentCVS is a Protégé plug-in (developed for version 4.0 build 101) which adapts Concurrent Versioning paradigm to allow several developers to make changes concurrently to an ontology. Conflict detection and resolution are based on novel techniques that take into account the structure and semantics of the ontology versions to be reconciled by using precisely-defined notions of structural and semantic differences between ontologies and by extending state-of-the-art ontology debugging and repair techniques.
ContentCVS was developed in 2009-2010 as a collaboration between the Temporal Knowledge Bases Group (Jaume I University of Castellon, Spain) and the KRR group. ContentCVS is open-source and released under GNU Lesser GPL. All components and source code are available from the TKBG webpage.
Using ContentCVS
ContentCVS extends Protégé 4.0 (build 101): simply copy uk.ac.ox.comlab.content_cvs.jar into Protégé's plugin folder.
Researchers
Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz, Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Ian Horrocks, and Rafael Berlanga
Key Publications
- E. Jiménez-Ruiz, B. Cuenca Grau, I. Horrocks, R. Berlanga. "Supporting Concurrent Ontology Development: Framework, Algorithms and Tool”. Data & Knowledge Engineering Journal, ISSN: 0169-023X, Volume 70, Issue 1, pp. 146-164, 2011. [More info]