- From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.rpi.edu>
- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:32:19 -0400
- To: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Cc: Ian Horrocks <Ian.Horrocks@comlab.ox.ac.uk>, Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com>, public-owl-wg@w3.org
very helpful, thanks -- it's clear there's a lot been done and out there, it's just sometimes tricky to know where to look first - be nice when this WG is done and there's "one stop shopping" for OWL again... On Oct 23, 2007, at 1:26 PM, Bijan Parsia wrote: > On Oct 23, 2007, at 2:17 PM, Jim Hendler wrote: > >> One thing what would help me a lot, and maybe reduce some of my >> confusion would be if there was a single table somewhere of all >> the vocabulary terms that will now be in OWL, perhaps with a * as >> to which ones are syntactic sugar. As far as I can tell from the >> current document, most of my existing OWL would be no longer DL, >> since it lacks type information, and there'd be a lot of new >> vocabulary items to learn to fix it -- but I can't really evaluate >> this because it is so difficult to map from the new syntax to the >> old. There are 10s of thousands of OWL documents out in the >> world, I'd like to try to figure out the effort to migrate and >> this would help >> Could this be done automagically? Would a "convert to OWL11" >> program be possible > > Yes. The OWL API reads OWL 1.0 documents and can write OWL1.1 > documents. Protege will in fact do this. > > IIRC, there are some issues remaining (esp. involving declarations). > > I also started on an XSLT that would go from the XML syntax to > either 1.1 RDF/XML or (if posssible) OWL 1.0 RDF/XML. > >> - again, this is because I'm confused for a lot of these >> predicates as to whether they are necessary or just useful to >> implementors (but ignorable my many users). >> Another thing that would help, apparently several of the >> reasoners (Pellet, Fact+, etc.) now handle OWL11 - do any of the >> editors? Does Topbraid? > [snip] > > Others have answered, but I'll also point to the OWLED wiki page: > http://code.google.com/p/owl1-1/wiki/Implementations > > It's a bit out of date. I posted a note saying we should migrate > this to the OWLWG wiki, presuming that we can find a space that > will be maintained ad infinitum. > > TopBraid certainly does, and is entirely Jena based. Holger, on > public-owl-dev Pellet has both OWL API and Jena front ends. > > Here's the annoucement: > http://composing-the-semantic-web.blogspot.com/2007/02/announcing- > topbraid-composer-20.html > > Cheers, > Bijan. "If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?." - Albert Einstein Prof James Hendler http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~hendler Tetherless World Constellation Chair Computer Science Dept Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY 12180
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