[seek-kr-sms] KOAN2

[Shawn Bowers]

On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Ferdinando Villa wrote:

> KAON2 looks impressive. Feature-wise it's probably KAON2 vs.
> Jena+Pellet. The thing that worries me is that only the second
> alternative is open source. If we adopt KAON2 in any "deep" way and they
> choose to go the way Racer has gone, we're screwed. So I suggest that if
> we plan for its adoption, we figure out a design that is as modular as
> possible - e.g. wrapping all ontology API into something that we can
> later switch to another toolkit without changing the Kepler bindings.

Yes. And this is exactly what I am currently doing with the ontology
support and associated tools in Kepler. I have wrapped a set of the Jena
OWL classes so that the underlying system can be easily swapped out.
There is also an Ontology Catalog class that manages these classes, etc.

I think we should definately stay away from non open-source solutions ...
so I should look more closely at the licensing sitatuation.

thanks,

-shawn

>
> ferdinando
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: seek-kr-sms-bounces at ecoinformatics.org
> > [mailto:seek-kr-sms-bounces at ecoinformatics.org] On Behalf Of
> > Shawn Bowers
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 12:39 PM
> > To: seek-kr-sms at ecoinformatics.org
> > Subject: [seek-kr-sms] KOAN2
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Since I wasn't at the AHM, I'm not sure if any discussion or
> > progress was made in terms of Kepler/SEEK strategies and
> > infrastructure for managing ontologies.
> >
> > Recently, KOAN2 was released with an impressive list of
> > features.  I wonder if this is something that we should look
> > at more carefully, and possibly adopt for Kepler/SEEK.
> >
> http://kaon2.semanticweb.org/
>
>
> -shawn
>
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