OWL-S Editor Tool

Hi all,

We announce OWL-S Editor, a new tool that can help users create, visualise
and verify OWL-S ontologies.

Abstract

Although many tools and APIs that help to create semantic web content are
available, there is still the need for new tools to address specific areas.
In particular, the aim of the OWL-S Editor is to help the un-experienced
user and/or programmer to create an OWL-S description for a Web Service.

Overview

The tool is divided into three main parts:

. Creator

. Validator

. Visualiser

The creator enables to create an empty OWL-S description either from a
template or through a wizard called "OwlsWiz" which accepts an input WSDL
and extracts partial information from it to create a basic OWL-S
description. The work of the wizard is based on Massimo Paolucci's et al's
work in WSDL2OWLS, although we had to write an API to perform such a
transformation as it was not available for download. The OwlsWiz is being
given the greatest focus as it's aim is to provide the user with the tools
needed to create an OWL-S description in the least amount of time possible
and without exposing the user to the (at times) complex structures
comprising OWL-S. This wizard implements also a Visual Composer which
enables to compose visually the service using standard UML Activity
Diagrams. The markup is then automatically generated in a recursive fashion.

The validator part will enable to check if the URIs used in the OWL-S
description are valid and also validate the syntax of the ontologies. The
Visualiser part enables the user to visualise the descriptions in a
graphical manner and also to print out a hard copy of the OWL-S description.

Further information can be found at
http://staff.um.edu.mt/cabe2/supervising/undergraduate/owlseditFYP/OwlSEdit.
html

Regards

James Scicluna, Charlie Abela