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

[Shawn Bowers]

Rich,

Thanks for the response. I am actually doing this now in Jena, but I 
wonder if there is a more general solution in terms of organization of 
the existing ontologies?

Also, do you use ont-policy.rdf for protege, and if so, can you check it 
into cvs?

thanks,
shawn


Rich Williams wrote:

> This is an issue in GrOWL, but it's really an issue with the OWLAPI.  There
> needs to be a way to tell it an alternative location of a resource when the
> uri is not available.  You can do that for the main file (by loading it from
> your local disk) but not for the imports.  Such a mechanism exists in Jena
> (the  ont-policy.rdf file), so you can work with a local copy of an ontology
> and its imports without changing resource names (I do it all the time when
> editing in Protege).
> 
> Rich
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: seek-kr-sms-admin at ecoinformatics.org
>>[mailto:seek-kr-sms-admin at ecoinformatics.org]On Behalf Of Shawn Bowers
>>Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 8:52 AM
>>To: seek-kr-sms at ecoinformatics.org
>>Subject: [seek-kr-sms] Loading ontologies without internet connectivity
>>
>>
>>
>>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
>>
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