Re: (SeWeb) KAON - KArlsruhe ONtology and Semantic Web Infrastructure

I agree with you.
If there is no common tool to build ontology,
how do we build a common ontology?

Jack

"John F. Sowa" wrote:
> 
> I looked at the KAON web site and some of the material there,
> and I am happy that it is an open-source project based on Java.
> But I had a question about why KAON is independent from other
> open-source, Java-based projects for ontology editing and
> development.
> 
> I don't want to start an argument about why one system might be
> better or worse than another, especially since I am not at the
> moment using any of them.  But since I am working with ontologies,
> I would like to consider using some such system and/or recommending
> it to my colleagues.  I would like to know why there are so many
> systems available that are being developed independently by different
> groups.
> 
> For example, the Protege project at Stanford is also an open-source
> Java-based ontology editor and development platform:
> 
>     http://protege.stanford.edu/index.html
> 
> I have also looked at that system, but I have not used it either.
> But it is also available as an open-source project, and I have seen
> demos and examples of other development platforms that are being
> developed on top of various platforms, including Java.
> 
> Why are all these groups working on independent tools for ontology
> instead of collaborating to build common tools that everyone could
> use?
> 
> John Sowa