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The Sweet Compendium of Ontology Building Tools
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content: 140 Tools: 20 Must Haves, 70 Possible Usefuls, and 50 Has Beens and Marginals Download PDF Well, for another client and another purpose, I was goaded into screening my Sweet Tools listing of semantic Web and -related tools and to assemble stuff from every other nook and cranny I could find. The net result is this enclosed listing of some 140 or so tools -- most open source -- related to semantic Web ontology building in one way or another. Ever since I wrote my Intrepid Guide to Ontologies nearly three years ago (and one of the more popular articles of this site, though it is now perhaps a bit long in the tooth), I have been intrigued with how these semantic structures are built and maintained. That interest, in no small measure, is why I continue to maintain the Sweet Tools listing. As far as I know, the following is the largest and most comprehensive listing of ontology building tools available. I broadly interpret the classification of 'ontology building'; I include, for example, vocabulary extraction and prompting tools, as well as ontology visualization and mapping. There are some 140 tools, perhaps 90 or so are still in active use. (Given the scope, not every tool could be inspected in detail. Some listed as being perhaps inactive may not be so, and others not in that category perhaps should be.) Of the entire roster of tools, somewhere on the order of 12 to 20 are quite impressive and deserving of local installation, test runs, and close inspection. There are relatively few tools useful to non-specialists (or useful to engaging knowledgeable publics in the ontology-building exercise). There appear to be key gaps in the entire workflow from domain scoping and initial ontology definition and vocabulary candidates, to longer-term maintenance and revision. For example, spreadsheets would appear to be a possible useful first step in any workflow process (which is why irON is listed), but the spreadsheet tool per se is not listed herein (nor are text editors). I su…
encoded: 140 Tools: 20 Must Haves, 70 Possible Usefuls, and 50 Has Beens and Marginals Download PDF Well, for another client and another purpose, I was goaded into screening my Sweet Tools listing of semantic Web and -related tools and to assemble stuff from every other nook and cranny I could find. The net result is this enclosed listing of some 140 or so tools — most open source — related to semantic Web ontology building in one way or another. Ever since I wrote my Intrepid Guide to Ontologies nearly three years ago (and one of the more popular articles of this site, though it is now perhaps a bit long in the tooth), I have been intrigued with how these semantic structures are built and maintained. That interest, in no small measure, is why I continue to maintain the Sweet Tools listing. As far as I know, the following is the largest and most comprehensive listing of ontology building tools available. I broadly interpret the classification of ‘ontology building’; I include, for example, vocabulary extraction and prompting tools, as well as ontology visualization and mapping. There are some 140 tools, perhaps 90 or so are still in active use. (Given the scope, not every tool could be inspected in detail. Some listed as being perhaps inactive may not be so, and others not in that category perhaps should be.) Of the entire roster of tools, somewhere on the order of 12 to 20 are quite impressive and deserving of local installation, test runs, and close inspection. There are relatively few tools useful to non-specialists (or useful to engaging knowledgeable publics in the ontology-building exercise). There appear to be key gaps in the entire workflow from domain scoping and initial ontology definition and vocabulary candidates, to longer-term maintenance and revision. For example, spreadsheets would appear to be a possible useful first step in any workflow process (which is why irON is listed), but the spreadsheet tool per se is not listed herein (nor are text editors). I sure…
topic: Adaptive Information
topic: Ontologies
topic: Open Source
topic: Semantic Web Tools
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links to: ontologies
links to: Download PDF
links to: Sweet Tools
links to: Intrepid Guide to Ontologies
links to: irON
links to: Apelon DTS
links to: FlexViz
links to: Knoodl
links to: Protégé
links to: diagramic.com
links to: BooWa
links to: COE
links to: ontopia
links to: Anzo
links to: PoolParty
links to: Vine
links to: Erca
links to: Graphl
links to: GrOWL
links to: Topic Maps
links to: Altova SemanticWorks
links to: Amine
links to: DOME
links to: Sourceforge
links to: online demo
links to: explanatory paper
links to: blog
links to: screencast
links to: NeOn toolkit
links to: v2.3.0 toolkit
links to: plug-ins
links to: screenshots
links to: Protégé Plugin Library
links to: Collaborative Protégé
links to: Sigma
links to: TopBraid Composer
links to: Adaptiva
links to: Exteca
links to: IODT
links to: KAON
links to: Ontolingua
links to: AlchemyAPI
links to: Google Keywords
links to: Google Sets
links to: Open Calais
links to: Query-by-document
links to: SemanticHacker
links to: Textwise
links to: TagFinder
links to: Tagthe.net
links to: TermExtractor
links to: TermFinder
links to: TerMine
links to: Topia term extractor
links to: term extraction demo
links to: Topicalizer
links to: TrMExtractor
links to: Wikify!

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