Knowledge Bases - Strutturare il sapere. Ontology based design for collaborative environments.

The development of professional skills in Design Construction shows increasingly divergent directions. In every field of knowledge, experts communicate by high level abstractions with particular drawings and documents, according to their disciplinary field. This research study is based upon a different definition of Collaboration: "The ability to discuss at the same level on a given topic". The main purpose is to create a collaborative working environment using external tools known to the actors involved, the terminology and jargon that they usually use. The chosen way to find an answer to all these questions is that expressed in the subtitle of this work: the development of a prototype that can improve collaboration between different specialists referring to the Ontology Based Design.