A framework for the collaborative specification of semantically annotated business processes

Semantic annotations are a way to provide a precise meaning tobusiness process elements, which supports reasoning on properties and constraints. Among the obstacles preventing widespreadadoption of semantic annotations are the technical skills requiredto manage the formalization of the semantics and the difficultyof reconciling the different view points of different analysts working on the same business process.In this paper, we support business analysts in the collaborativeannotation of business processes by means of a tool inspired to theWiki pages model. Using this tool, analysts can concurrently workon process elements, ontology concepts, process annotation orconstraint specification. The underlying formalism is not exposedin the Wiki pages, where natural language templates are used.