Re: Tools

Xiaoshu
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> Here is my two cents on the topics.
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> I actually hold a bit different opinion on this.  I think at the  
> beginning
> stage, one should try to do hand editing.  I played around with  
> Protégé
> before, I think because of historic reasons, it uses a lot of terms in
> semantic network.  I saw a lot of people discussing ontologies  
> using "slot",
> "roles", etc. I don't have any grudge on protégé, which I think is  
> a great
> software.  But this sort of dialect is not healthy to advance SW
> technologies. And I also that see many ontologies are developed  
> with an OO
> thinking. Doing it manually actually helps to understand the  
> technology, at
> least that is my experience.  But of course, tool is useful to  
> speed things
> up but only when people knows what the tool are doing for them.
>
> Xiaoshu
>

The OWL plugin on Protege-OWL now  provides a standard vocabulary for  
the OWL / RDF versions with some 'syntactic sugar' to conserve screen  
space and (we hope) improve understanding

Alan


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