A Tool for Diligent Argumentation: Experiences, Requirements and Design

Ontologies are defined as "the formal specification of a shared conceptualization of a domain of interest". Unlike most other ontology engineering methodologies, the DILIGENT methodology aims specifically at the collaborative and distributed building of ontologies, providing a rich argumentation framework in order to quickly proceed with building the ontology and tracking all relevant discussions about the conceptualization. Based upon first experience with DILIGENT, we designed a tool to support engineers and domain experts to follow the DILIGENT processes. In this paper we present the experiences and requirements our work is based on, and present the resulting design and state of the ongoing implementation