[seek-kr-sms] new ontology editing tool

Matt Jones jones at nceas.ucsb.edu
Tue Oct 11 08:14:17 PDT 2005


This tool is advertised by the company that makes XML Spy, the most 
popular XML editor.  It may be worth checking out as an alternative to 
Protege.

Matt

Developers Access Semantic Web with New Altova Tool
Kathleen Ohlson, Application Development Trends

Altova has introduced a Semantic Web development tool that enables
developers to graphically create and edit in Resource Description
Framework and Web Ontology Language. The Semantic Web is a common
framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application,
enterprise and community boundaries, according to the World Wide Web
Consortium. The framework acts like a giant database, with data on Web
pages, databases and other information management systems that machines
search, process and engage with. RDF, OWL and XML provide descriptions
that supplement or replace content in Web documents. These descriptions
allow content managers to add meanings to the content, enabling
computers to automatically gather and research information. Using
Altova's SemanticWorks 2006, developers graphically create and edit
RDF instance documents, RDF Schema vocabularies and OWL ontologies
with full syntax checking. Developers can switch from the graphical
RDF/OWL view to the text view to evaluate how their documents are
being built in RDF/XML or N-triples format. The text view includes
syntax coloring, source folding, and line numbers for easy file
navigation.

http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=11889

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National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)
UC Santa Barbara     http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/ecoinformatics
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