- From: Martin Hepp <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org>
- Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:02:37 +0100
- To: Deepak Nadig <deepak.nadig@gmail.com>
- Cc: <semantic-web@w3.org>
On Dec 16, 2011, at 6:26 PM, Deepak Nadig wrote:
>
> Are there any tools that can generate UML class/object diagrams from Turtle?
>
> Thanks,
> Deepak
My lessons learned from generating the UML diagram
http://www.heppnetz.de/ontologies/goodrelations/v1.html#uml
for the GoodRelations ontology
http://purl.org/goodrelations/
for ca. three years now is that all tool-based approaches do not produce the necessary quality. I checked many tools, but not of them
1. returned a result that was easy to post-process as a vector graphic (which is essential, since you may want to fine-tune the layout of the elements for a non-trivial diagram) and
2. allowed me to exclude certain elements or axioms.
Most tools already failed at providing a vector file output. The output was often ugly or confusing or both.
This is way I have kept on maintaining the diagram in a graphical tool (OmniGraffle) since then, with the help of a few nested SPARQL queries that provide e.g. the properties for a given class.
Best
Martin
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