  In the current era, many disciplines are seen devoted towards ontology
development for their domains with the intention of creating, disseminating and
managing resource descriptions of their domain knowledge into machine
understandable and processable manner. Ontology construction is a difficult
group activity that involves many people with the different expertise.
Generally, domain experts are not familiar with the ontology implementation
environments and implementation experts do not have all the domain knowledge.
We have designed Collaborative Business Intelligence Ontology (CBIOnt) for
BI4People project. In this paper, we present CBIOnt that is OWL 2 DL ontology
for the description of collaborative session between different collaborators
working together on the business intelligent platform. As the collaborative
session between various collaborators belongs to some collaborative form, phase
and research aspect, therefore CBIOnt captures this knowledge along with the
collaborative session content (comments, questions, answers, etc.) so that one
can inference various types of information stored on ontologies when required.
In addition, it stores the location and temporal-spatial information about the
collaboration held between collaborators. We believe CBIOnt serves as a formal
framework for dealing with the collaborative session taken place among
collaborators on the semantic Web.
