[seek-kr-sms] new ontology editing tool

[Shawn Bowers]

On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, PeterMcCartney wrote:

> great. Lara Croft does OWL.
>
> Spy has become very expensive and being a windows-only product, we have
> had trouble with cross-platform issues both running the program as well
> as using XSL's that were developed with it. Still, some may find it a
> good alternative to protege.

After reviewing this a bit, I think it is very immature compared with
other tools such as Protege.  Perhaps it will get better over time, but
for now I think Protege is "in the lead."

-shawn

>
>
> On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 08:46 -0700, Shawn Bowers wrote:
> > Here is a description of the product:
> >
> > http://www.altova.com/products_semanticworks.html
> >
> > There appears to be a 30-day trial download.  It looks like they use a
> > similar graphic style (icons, layout, etc) as for XML Schema ...
> >
> > -shawn
> >
> > On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Matt Jones wrote:
> >
> > > 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
> > >
> > > --
> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > Matt Jones
> > > jones at nceas.ucsb.edu                         Ph: 907-789-0496
> > > National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)
> > > UC Santa Barbara     http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/ecoinformatics
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