A Web Based Framework for Developing Domain Ontology

There are two issues of ontology building and evaluating: 1) ontology construction is apart from ontology evaluation; 2) current methods more or less overlooked the role of ontology end-user. Our contribution is that this paper proposes a Web-based ontology development framework, with domain experts, ontology engineers and end users to participate in it, which emphasizes on the continuity between ontology building and evaluating process and the importance of user-centric. Its structure, work principle and three key factors about implement were particularly discussed. Compared with the past ontology development method, the framework makes full use of information diversity, functional diversity and breadth of audience of the Web, and emphasizes the user-centered concept of ontology development.