Collaboration At The Stage Of Semantic Assets Development

To provide the ability for information systems to interact on a semantic level, it is necessary to join the efforts of IT-specialists and various domain experts to develop semantic assets (SA). However, during their collaboration a paradigm gap in the interaction of the developers often appears, coming from a problem of cross-disciplinary misunderstanding and resulting in multiple revisions and unsatisfactory solutions. Therefore, to achieve the outcome of SA development, adequate methodological and instrumental support of collaboration is required. The analysis of the limitations existing in standard SA management methods has led the authors to propose the approach ensuring collaboration, based on managing the workflow (WF) development. To support WF at the development stage of semantic assets life cycle, the authors suggest extending ADMS-AP (Asset Description Metadata Schema Application Profile) with a set of classes and properties, which form the ADMS-WF application profile. The process of EuroVoc localization for Russia is represented as the example demonstrating the implementation of suggested methods and tools using ADMS-WF. The proposed approach was tested in the CSI (Centre of Semantic Integration) project and its semantic integration platform.