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

We will fix the broken OWL:import and re-release promptly

Tim

On TuesdayMar 13, 2007, at 10:20 AM, samwald@gmx.at wrote:

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> Ontowiki:
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> 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:
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> 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.
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> ---
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> 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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