- From: Tim Clark <twclark@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:57:00 -0400
- To: samwald@gmx.at
- Cc: public-semweb-lifesci hcls <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
We will fix the broken OWL:import and re-release promptly Tim On TuesdayMar 13, 2007, at 10:20 AM, samwald@gmx.at wrote: > > 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. > > --- > 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 > > > [1] http://aksw.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/Projects/Powl > [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-semweb-lifesci/ > 2007Jan/0229.html > > > > > > > > > > > . > -- > "Feel free" - 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS/Monat ... > Jetzt GMX TopMail testen: www.gmx.net/de/go/mailfooter/topmail-out > >
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