- From: <samwald@gmx.at>
- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:32:32 +0100
- To: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
> We have a free tool called COE which can display > any OWL ontology graphically and has no trouble > with class hierarchies. It also supports editing > and composing ontologies in the graphical > interface. You can get it from > http://cmap.ihmc.us/coe/. I suggest reading the > manual first. Thanks for the link, this looks like a useful tool! I am installing it right now (and reading the manual). However, I was mainly thinking about RDF browsers that can be accessed through a common web browser. So far all of the RDF browsers we have looked into have been integrated into the normal server / webbrowser architecture, so I was implying that. COE requires an installation. > That seems like a very bad reason, frankly. OWL > without classes isn't much more than RDF. Its not > a question of being purist, but whether or not > your ontologies will do anything when you give > them to a reasoner. Oh, I think you got me wrong here. I did not mean OWL without any classes, but with a certain ratio of classes to individuals. I prefer ontologies that have a certain set of classes (say 20 to 100) that act as a schema, and where most of the 'actual data' is expressed as individuals and the basic schema stays untouched. Still, you can do a lot of reasoning with such ontologies. cheers, Matthias Samwald . -- "Feel free" - 5 GB Mailbox, 50 FreeSMS/Monat ... Jetzt GMX ProMail testen: www.gmx.net/de/go/mailfooter/promail-out
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