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Ontology engineering community ontology management
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Ontology engineering is the process of creating ontologies.

As defined elsewhere, an ontology in the context of xml and the Semantic Web research project, is [//define ontology//]

In an organisational or industrial sense, ontology engineering can be seen as a process that deserves to be tightly controlled and centrally coordinated.

//todo add// **ontology_merging and ontology_aligning ** e.g. Noy and Musen (1999), as cited Alexiev et al. (2005).

However, there is also a recent and emerging body of research related to the concept of **community driven ontology management**, and the related idea of a community semantic web portal, as argued by Anna Zhdanova and her colleagues.

Semantic community portals & Community-driven ontology management
//todo// insert summary of > O'Murchu, Zhdanova, & Breslin, (2007, forthcoming); & > Zhdanova, Krummenacher, Henke, & Fensel (2005)

In the context of sematic community portals, O'Murchu et al. define a “community of users” as “a group of individual that use the same ontology. The community of users is characterised by summing up characteristics of all its members. Actions of the community of users are [the] sum of the action of all its members. O'Murchu, Zhdanova, & Breslin, (2007, forthcoming, //glossary// sect.);

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