Re: Deploying an OWL ontology via an Web Services interface

 Hi Rob, 

 Two tools might be interesting for you:

 * the Sesame ontology store and query engine (available as a WS), see:
http://www.openrdf.org.

 * the WebOde - a web based ontology editor which offers support for multiple
users, see: http://delicias.dia.fi.upm.es/webODE/.

 Regards, 

 Marta Sabou
 

Rob Atkinson wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> Apologies if there is an obvious answer to this, but I havent been able
> to locate it via browsing, searching or asking yet: is there a working
> group, standard, best practice or even published proprietary API for
> deploying an ontology via Web Services.
> 
> I am interested in the case of a community managed ontology, where
> working groups can be delegated to maintain parts of the ontology, all
> via a single web accessible repository. Applications would be able to
> search this repository as required.
> 
> I would like the ability to:
> 1) insert, update or delete classes
> 2) find references that directly depend on a class
> 3) query
> 4) ideally, insert an entire OWL ontology including relationships to
> pre-existing classes...
> 5) ... which implies having a stable URI to reference items within the
> deployed ontology in the first place
> 
> Maybe there is no API that makes sense, and its always only possible to
> think about publishing a single file, and using xlink to try to glue it
> all together - in which case there should be some serious thought
> somewhere about the query mechanisms you would use to perform typical
> ontology traversals. I'd be happy with a registry-friendly model where
> the transactions can be defined to be honest.
> 
> Can anyone point me to where such deployment issues are being worked out?
> 
> Regards
> Rob Atkinson