- From: Grit Denker <Grit.Denker@sri.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 19:43:13 -0800
- To: daml-all <daml-all@daml.org>, sws-ig <public-sws-ig@w3.org>, protege-owl <protege-owl@SMI.Stanford.EDU>, rdf-logic <www-rdf-logic@w3.org>
The OWL-S Editor for Protege, developed at SRI International, aims to
provide an intuitive and powerful environment for creating and editing
OWL-S service descriptions. The current release is an early ("alpha")
release, and we will be adding more features shortly. The source code is
released under the Mozilla Public License. Both a binary release and the
source are available at:
http://owlseditor.semwebcentral.org/
We are eager to get user feedback! Future release announcements will be
posted to our own mailing list.
Some of the main features are:
- Visual drag and drop composite process editor. (This functionality
utilizes the GraphViz package, and some of the code is based on earlier
work by Randy Washington at DCS Corporation).
- Graphical overview of the main parts of the OWL-S ontology. See how
your Service/Process/Profile/Grounding instances relate to one another.
- WSDL Import. Generate a skeletal OWL-S description automatically from
a WSDL file. (This functionality utilizes Mindswap's wsdl2owls code).
- Developed as a plugin to Protege, so it is easy to browse the domain
ontologies that your OWL-S services use.
- Supports ALL properties of OWL-S.
- Loads existing OWL-S descriptions, making it easy to get an overview
of complicated service structures and process models.
In progress are, among other things, an Input/Output/Precondition/Result
manager, support for easily adding data flow declarations, visualizing
dataflow in the process graph, exporting the graphs to various file
formats, a lot of UI improvements, and more. We are also working on a
user manual/tutorial.
Happy thanksgiving!
-The OWL-S Editor team
Received on Thursday, 25 November 2004 03:43:24 UTC