Re: Ann: VOWL 2, ProtegeVOWL, WebVOWL

wonderful!! :-)


2014-05-12 17:30 GMT+02:00 Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>:

> On 5/12/14 11:04 AM, Steffen Lohmann wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> we are glad to announce that version 2.0 of the Visual Notation for OWL
>> Ontologies (VOWL) has been published a few weeks ago. Along with the
>> specification, we released a Protégé plugin and a web tool that implement
>> large parts of VOWL. The works may be of interest to those of you who would
>> like to visualize (smaller) ontologies in an intuitive way. They can be
>> tested online at: http://vowl.visualdataweb.org
>>
>> We are currently working on an improved JSON structure and additional
>> functionality for the web tool (WebVOWL) to allow for an easier
>> transformation of OWL to JSON and to provide a more compact visualization
>> for larger ontologies. We are also planning to integrate further visual
>> elements from the spec into the Protégé plugin (ProtégéVOWL). VOWL itself
>> will also be advanced in the future to consider further OWL elements
>> (particularly from OWL 2) and additional cases.
>>
>> Note that the focus of VOWL 2 is on the ontology schema (i.e. the
>> classes, properties and datatypes, sometimes called TBox), while the focus
>> of VOWL 1 was on the integrated representation of classes and individuals
>> (TBox and ABox) - which is, however, still possible with VOWL 2.
>>
>> On behalf of the VOWL team,
>> Steffen
>>
>> --
>> Steffen Lohmann . Institute for Visualization and Interactive Systems
>> University of Stuttgart . Universitaetstrasse 38 . D-70569 Stuttgart
>> Phone: +49 711 685-88438 . http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/~lohmansn
>>
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> Great Job!!
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>
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