Ontology Creation and Maintenance Environment Needs
Semi-automatic generation input
Diagnostics/Explanation (Chimaera, CLASSIC,Ö)
Merging and Difference (Chimaera, Prompt, Ontolingua, Ö)
Translators/Dumping (Ontolingua, Ö)
Distributed Multi-User Collaboration (OntologyBuilder,Ö)
Versioning (OntologyBuilder,Ö)
Scalability. Reliability, Performance, Availability (Shoe,OntologyBuilder,Ö)
Security (viewing, updates, abstraction, authoritative sourcesÖ)
Ontology Library systems (Ontolingua,Ö)
Business needs ñ internationalization, compatibility with standards (XML,Ö)