RE: browsing VIAF OWL with the Manchester Ontology browser Re: SemWeb terminology page

I've asked to have the stylesheet problem fixed and will try to make it
clearer why this needs to  be a priority. In the mean time, the
Manchester Ontology browser is usable, but make sure you're referencing
the latest VIAF ontology:

 

http://viaf.org/ontology/1.1/

 

Jeff

 

From: Jodi Schneider [mailto:jodi.schneider@deri.org] 
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 10:45 AM
To: Karen Coyle
Cc: Young,Jeff (OR); public-lld
Subject: browsing VIAF OWL with the Manchester Ontology browser Re:
SemWeb terminology page

 

On 4 Dec 2010, at 22:25, Karen Coyle wrote:





Quoting "Young,Jeff (OR)" <jyoung@oclc.org>:




(Unfortunately, the VIAF ontology is virtually unusable by humans

	because of stylesheet problems. Sorry.)


There seems to be a fairly common problem with displaying ontologies in
human-friendly forms. That's definitely something that has to get ironed
out if we want people to actually create instance data. :-)

 

Agreed!

 

What about using the Manchester Ontology browser? You can see classes,
object properties, data properties, annotation properties, datatypes --
and drill down into them. 

 

Specify an OWL file to visualize here:

http://owl.cs.manchester.ac.uk/browser/

For VIAF, try

http://viaf.org/viaf.owl

 

-Jodi

 

PS-The ontology browser code is here:

http://code.google.com/p/ontology-browser/