[ANN] Tawny-OWL 1.3.0

I am pleased to annouce the 1.3.0 release of Tawny-OWL, now available on
clojars and github (http://github.com/phillord/tawny-owl).

What is Tawny-OWL
=================

Tawny-OWL allows construction of OWL ontologies, in a evaluative, functional
and fully programmatic environment. Think of it as the ontology engineering
equivalent of [R](http://www.r-project.org/). It has many advantages over
traditional ontology engineering tools, also described in a
[video introduction](https://vimeo.com/89782389).

- An interactive shell or REPL to explore and create ontologies.
- Source code, with comments, editable using any of a range of IDEs.
- Fully extensible -- new syntaxes, new data sources can be added by users
- Patterns can be created for individual ontologies; related classes can be
  built easily, accurately and maintainably.
- A unit test framework with fully reasoning.
- A clean syntax for versioning with any VCS, integrated with the IDE
- Support for packaging, dependency resolution and publication
- Enabled continuous integration with both ontology and software dependencies


For the Clojure developer
=========================

Tawny-OWL is predominately designed as a programmatic application for ontology
development, but it can be used as an API. OWL ontologies are a set of
statements about things and their relationships; underneath these statements
map to a subset of first-order logic which makes it possible to answer 
questions about these statements using highly-optimised reasoners.


Take Wing
=========

Although in it's early stage, a rich manual is now being written for Tawny-OWL
https://github.com/phillord/take-wing
http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/phillip.lord/take-wing/take_wing.html

Changes
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Two new features are added to this release. First, it is now possible to
annotate axioms as well as just entities. Second, new functions have been
added to make development of patterns easier, both in function and macro form.

Full change log is available.

https://github.com/phillord/tawny-owl/blob/master/docs/releases.md

Received on Friday, 14 November 2014 10:26:27 UTC