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A New Landscape in Ontology Development Tools
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content: Shifting the Center of Gravity to the OWL API, Web Services Previous installments in this series have listed existing ontology tools, overviewed development methodologies, and proposed a new approach to building lightweight, domain ontologies [1]. For the latter to be successful, a new generation in ontology development tools is needed. This post provides an explication of the landscape under which this new generation of tools is occurring. Ontologies supply the structure for relating information to other information in the semantic Web or the linked data realm. Because of this structural role, ontologies are pivotal to the coherence and interoperability of interconnected data. We are now concluding the first decade of ontology development tools, especially those geared to the semantic Web and its associated languages of RDFS and OWL. Last year we also saw the release of the major update to the OWL 2 language, with its shift to more expressiveness and a variety of profiles. The upcoming next generation of ontology tools now must also shift. The current imperative is to shift away from ontology engineering by a priesthood to pragmatic daily use and maintenance by domain practitioners. Market growth demands simpler, task-focused tools with intuitive interfaces. For this change to occur, the general tools architecture needs to shift its center of gravity from IDEs and comprehensive toolkits to APIs and Web services. Not surprisingly, this same shift is what has been occurring across all areas of software. Methodology Reprise: The Nature of the Landscape In the previous installment of this series, we presented a new methodological approach to ontology development, geared to lightweight, domain ontologies. One aspect of that design was to separate the operational workflow into two pathways: Instances, and their descriptive characteristics, and Conceptual relationships, or ontologies. The ontology build methodology concentrated on the upper half of this diagram (blue, wit…
encoded: Shifting the Center of Gravity to the OWL API, Web Services Previous installments in this series have listed existing ontology tools, overviewed development methodologies, and proposed a new approach to building lightweight, domain ontologies [1]. For the latter to be successful, a new generation in ontology development tools is needed. This post provides an explication of the landscape under which this new generation of tools is occurring. Ontologies supply the structure for relating information to other information in the semantic Web or the linked data realm. Because of this structural role, ontologies are pivotal to the coherence and interoperability of interconnected data. We are now concluding the first decade of ontology development tools, especially those geared to the semantic Web and its associated languages of RDFS and OWL. Last year we also saw the release of the major update to the OWL 2 language, with its shift to more expressiveness and a variety of profiles. The upcoming next generation of ontology tools now must also shift. The current imperative is to shift away from ontology engineering by a priesthood to pragmatic daily use and maintenance by domain practitioners. Market growth demands simpler, task-focused tools with intuitive interfaces. For this change to occur, the general tools architecture needs to shift its center of gravity from IDEs and comprehensive toolkits to APIs and Web services. Not surprisingly, this same shift is what has been occurring across all areas of software. Methodology Reprise: The Nature of the Landscape In the previous installment of this series, we presented a new methodological approach to ontology development, geared to lightweight, domain ontologies. One aspect of that design was to separate the operational workflow into two pathways: Instances, and their descriptive characteristics, and Conceptual relationships, or ontologies. The ontology build methodology concentrated on the upper half of this diagram (blue, wit…
topic: Ontologies
topic: Ontology Best Practices
topic: Open Source
topic: Semantic Web Tools
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links to: existing ontology tools
links to: development methodologies
links to: building lightweight, domain ontologies
links to: [1]
links to: Ontologies
links to: semantic Web
links to: linked data
links to: RDFS
links to: OWL
links to: OWL 2
links to: IDEs
links to: APIs
links to: Web services
links to: [2]
links to: [3]
links to: [4]
links to: Protégé
links to: [5]
links to: [6]
links to: [7]
links to: F-logic
links to: DAML+Oil
links to: W3C
links to: [8]
links to: [9]
links to: [10]
links to: OWL 1.0
links to: TopBraid Composer
links to: 11
links to: [12]
links to: TwoUse Toolkit
links to: [13]
links to: [14]
links to: University of Manchester
links to: CO-ODE project
links to: [15]
links to: Manchester syntax
links to: structWSF
links to: [16]
links to: [17]
links to: S-Match
links to: [18]
links to: [19]
links to: RESTful
links to: OWL API
links to: NeOn toolkit
links to: irON
links to: ReDeFer
links to: SKOS2GenTax
links to: RDFizers
links to: vocab prompting
links to: ROC
links to: Anzo
links to: RDF123
links to: commON
links to: ontology editing
links to: Alignment API
links to: ontology mapping
links to: Relation Browser
links to: Ontology Browser
links to: OwlSight
links to: FlexViz
links to: PoolParty
links to: Neologism

Mike Bergman
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Mike Bergman
type: Person

existing ontology tools
label: listing of 185 ontology tools
label: 185 tools listing
label: update

development methodologies
label: survey

building lightweight, domain ontologies
label: previous installment
label: preceding methodology installment

DAML+Oil
label: DAML+OIL

[9]
label: 9

11
label: [11]

TemaTres

ThManager

Vocab Editor

SNAP

igraph

Network Workbench

NetworkX,

Ontology Metrics

ontology visualization

COE

Cyc

OWLim
label: OWLIM

FactForge

TechWiki

SpecGen

OWLDoc

GATE

OWL Syntax Converter

OWL Verbalizer

large-scale graph visualization software

Structured Dynamics

semantic components

me know

Lightweight, Domain Ontologies Development Methodology

Normative Landscape of Ontology Tools

ontology best practices

Ontology-driven Applications Using Adaptive Ontologies

description logics

Jena

open source site

TopBraid Composer

OWL API support

MOST Project's

OntoCAT