ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a view of how the knowledge-sharing industry is evolving, its terminology, the infrastructure, technology, and methodologies that make it possible, its main developments, as well as the principal research issues and future trends. Ontology implementation requires the use of an environment that supports the knowledge representation ontology, the meta-ontology, and ontologies selected at the integration phase. The result of this phase is the ontology codified in a formal language. A framework for evaluating knowledge-sharing technology has been presented by Gomez-Perez. Evaluation means to carry out a technical judgment of the ontologies, their software environment, and documentation with respect to a frame of reference during each phase and between phases of their life cycle. The ontology server is a set of tools and services that support the building of shared ontologies between geographically distributed groups.
