PromptDiff: A fixed-point algorithm for comparing ontology versions

Authors: 
Noy, N.F.; Musen, M.A.
Author: 
Noy, N
Musen, M
Year: 
2002
Venue: 
18th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-
URL: 
http://www.smi.stanford.edu/pubs/SMI_Reports/SMI-2002-0927.pdf
Citations: 
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Citations range: 
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As ontology development becomes a more ubiquitous and collaborative process, the developers face the problem of maintaining versions of ontologies akin to maintaining versions of software code in large software projects. Versioning systems for software code provide mechanisms for tracking versions, checking out versions for editing, comparing different versions, and so on. We can directly reuse many of these mechanisms for ontology versioning. However, version comparison for code is based on comparing text files—an approach that does not work for comparing ontologies. Two ontologies can be identical but have different text representation. We have developed the P