RE: [HCLSIG Demo] Ontowiki as a GUI, SWAN, Neurocommons

Matthias,

May I propose that you give a demo of OntoWiki at one of the upcoming F2Fs?

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> Subject: [HCLSIG Demo] Ontowiki as a GUI, SWAN, Neurocommons
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> Ontowiki:
> 
> I was asked to assess the usability of Ontowiki [1,2] for the purposes of
> our Demo. I can say that it appears to be useful for the visualisation
> (and not to forget: for editing) most of the data we are dealing with in
> our planned demo, as long as most of the information is expressed as
> individuals and not as classes. It could definitely be useful for
> viewing/editing SWAN hypotheses. Unfortunately, I was not able to test
> this, because the latest version of the SWAN OWL ontology
> (swan20070301.owl) has a broken owl:import, and Ontowiki refuses to load
> it. I also tried loading the current Neurocommons OWL ontology
> (annotations.owl), and it worked fine.
> 
> Ontologies that are solely based on classes (like the NeuronDB ontology)
> cannot be usefully visualised / edited with Ontowiki, however. As far as I
> know, this is true for all other RDF/OWL browsers currently available.
> This is the main reason why I would like to avoid extensive use of classes
> (and why my ontology papers are rejected by purist reviewers).
> 
> There is a simple mechanism by which images can be displayed directly in
> the Ontowiki system. In the configuration of Ontowiki, you can list
> datatype properties whose value will be resolved. If the value is a URL
> pointing to an image file, this image file will be displayed inside the
> wiki system. I guess it should be possible to use this feature in the demo
> (visualisations are good, visualisations inside the interactive wiki
> system would be even better).
> 
> Regarding the stability of the current version of Ontowiki (0.94), it
> seems okay, but there are some bugs left to catch. I could not get it
> running on all Apache/PHP/MySQL installations I tried. It is also easily
> irritated when confronted with incosistend ontologies.
> 
> However, these are minor concerns, and it seems the group behind Ontowiki
> is very interested in biomedical applications. I guess they would assist
> us if we would choose to use it in the demo.
> 
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> SWAN, Neurocommons:
> 
> I see a lot of convergence between the forthcoming OWL versions of the
> SWAN ontology and the neurocommons ontology. Since both are still not
> officially released, I think it would be worthwhile to attempt to
> integrate both ontologies into one. This would be very, very useful for
> both projects.
> 
> ---
> 
> cheers,
> Matthias Samwald
> 
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> [1] http://aksw.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/Projects/Powl
> [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-semweb-
> lifesci/2007Jan/0229.html
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