Re: Ontology Viewer (UML like?)

You can generate UML-like class diagrams with TopBraid Composer:

http://www.topbraidcomposer.com/featureClassDiagram.html

This also includes class expressions and relationships such as disjointness.

Holger


revi s. wrote:
> Hi folks:
> 
>  I'm in the process of designing an OWL ontology using Protege, but I 
> don't seem to find a good "viewer" that gives me a graphical view. I'm 
> so used to UML diagrams from the OOD world -- I see ontology design as 
> somewhat similar to OOD, I want something like a UML class diagram.
> OWLViz in Protege just shows me the classes and their inheritance 
> relations. However in my ontology most of the "meat" is in the 
> properties, and OWLViz diagram is almost useless.
> 
> What does the community use to visualize ontologies -- if I wanted 
> someone to get an idea of my ontology what is the preferred format/tool? 
> I understand some relations / constraints such as cardinality or boolean 
> constraints may be difficult to graphically represent, but what is the 
> "standard" so far?
> 
> Thanks.
> Revi
> 
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