[seek-kr-sms] Loading ontologies without internet connectivity

[Shawn Bowers]

I am having some problems with GrOWL and Jena with Rich's Ontologies 
when there is no internet connectivity.  And I was wondering if anyone 
had run into this, or had ideas on how to fix this ...

When I am not connected to the internet, and I try to load an ontology 
such as Ecological Concepts, GrOWL dies.  Jena also has problems. In 
particular, all of the concepts such as EcoOntThing that are from an 
imported ontology become problematic.  For example, exceptions are 
thrown if these are treated as OntClass instances or if imported 
properties are treated as OntProperty instances.

One solution to this problem might be to import local files instead of 
from URLs.  Does anyone have any other solutions?

In general, I think we might want to have a more self-contained and 
possibly thematic organization to the SEEK ontologies.  Rich, have you 
thought about how best to organize what you've done? Or, is the current 
organization your preferred approach?

Shawn