Toward a Cooperatively Built Ontology of Knowledge Engineering

Nowadays, it is difficult and inefficient to publish, retrieve, compare, evaluate and learn ideas and techniques about knowledge engineering since they are not organized into a semantic network but stored within informal documents and hence scattered and described in various ways across millions of such documents (research articles, documentations, emails, etc.). Our knowledge server WebKB-2 supports the collaborative building of a formal or semi-formal semantic network. We have begun creating such a network to permit a scalable sharing of information about knowledge engineering. This article illustrates and discusses this work. Key-Words: Knowledge engineering, Knowledge sharing, Knowledge retrieval, Ontology, CSCW