- From: Aditya Kalyanpur <swap_adityak@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 12:03:28 -0800 (PST)
- To: public-owl-dev@w3.org
SWOOP v2.2 (Web Ontology) Editor MINDSWAP Research Group, University of Maryland Release Date: Mar 13, 2005 SWOOP [1] is an OWL Ontology browser/editor that takes the standard Web browser as the basic UI paradigm. Swoop includes many of the familiar features of a Web browser such as an address bar and history buttons, bookmarks, hypertextual navigation etc. and applies them to the problem of browsing and editing Web based ontologies. Features include: * It is simple to load ontologies from the web and to navigate within and between them. * Multiple ontologies may be loaded at the same time. * Ontologies, classes, properties, and individuals are rendered in a high level, accessible manner. * One can "view the source" of ontologies and their entities in a number of common syntaxes (e.g. RDF/XML, the OWL Abstract Syntax, Turtle). * OWL reasoners can be integrated for subsumption, consistency checking etc. -- default reasoners include a RDFS-like simple reasoner and Pellet, a Description Logic Tableaux Reasoner. * Ontology change management with extensive rollback and undo mechanisms * Share Annotations on Ontologies using the Annotea Protocol [2]. Also attach and distribute Ontology Change sets with Annotations * Search across multiple ontologies and 'find all references' of an OWL named entity * Compare entities using a Resource Holder * Export Ontologies directly to a remote WebDav store This version contains some advanced, experimental features such as: * Debug Ontologies using Pellet (explanations for unsatisfiable classes & inconsistent ontologies) * Run "sound and complete" conjunctive ABox queries (written in RDQL) on an ontology using Pellet * Partition Ontologies automatically by transforming them into an E-connection [3] SWOOP is written in Java (1.4) and is based on the WonderWeb OWL-API [4]. It has a plugin-based architecture for renderers and reasoners. A sample plugin -- "Natural-Language" entity renderer is to be released shortly (see /plugins on the SWOOP website). You can download the latest version of SWOOP directly from: http://www.mindswap.org/2004/SWOOP/downloads/SWOOP-2.2.zip or try out the online (Java Webstart) demo at: http://www.mindswap.org/2004/SWOOP/Swoop.jnlp For a list of up-to-date bugs, feature requests etc check out: http://www.mindswap.org/issues/ Also, feel free to join the SWOOP Mailing Lists: http://lists.mindswap.org/mailman/listinfo/swoop (Users) and http://lists.mindswap.org/mailman/listinfo/swoop-devel (Developers) Hope you enjoy using SWOOP! [1] http://www.mindswap.org/2004/SWOOP/ [2] http://www.w3.org/2002/12/AnnoteaProtocol-20021219 [3] http://www.mindswap.org/2004/multipleOnt/ [4] http://wonderweb.semanticweb.org/owl/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
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