Ontology editor
An ontology editor is software with which ontologies - i.e. relationships of being - can be constructed.
One of the best-known ontology editors is Protégé from Stanford University , which is based on data exchange protocols such as OKBC and can import and export ontology languages such as OWL and RDF .
Criteria for selection
From the large number of editors available, a ranking list of requirements can be formulated according to the following points.
- Degree of abstraction from the concrete ontology presentation for intuitive knowledge modeling
- Visual or intuitive navigation in the knowledge model
The visualization of the description context is related to the concept map and the mind map . On the other hand, such descriptions of the world can serve both for the development of expert systems and for the development of games. - Inference options using an external or built-in inference engine
- Standardized storage formats = ontology languages
- Comparison between different ontologies and the integration of external data
- Information extraction facilities
- Export / import of third-party ontology formats
- Support and integration of industry standards and core ontologies such as Dublin Core .
- Natural language processing
- Wizards for supporting best practice methods
- Adaptability to individual needs
- Support of groupware properties
See also
Web links
- http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/07/14/onto.html (investigation of various ontology editors, out of date)
- Ontolingua
- A very extensive list of editors can be found in this PDF on xml.com (in English).
Software systems
- [1] professional development environment for building ontology-based applications
- Protégé for creating user-defined knowledge bases with application ( PDF ).
- TopBraid Composer professional modeling environment for developing ontologies for the Semantic Web
- Chimæra and underlying application
- webOnto a web-based editor
- ONTOLIS generate ontology-based applications, edit ontologies in the browser , web service for ontological development of existing data pools