Re: Tool for Creating UML Class Diagrams from OWL Ontologies?

I would have thought eclipse, but maybe thats only for  uml to owl
owl to uml possibly Altova Semantic works?


pdm

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Paul Gearon <gearon@ieee.org> wrote:

> You should have a talk to Sandpiper Software, as they specialize in
> translating both ways between OWL and UML, and have a GUI framework
> that plugs into Eclipse.
>
>  http://www.sandsoft.com/
>
> I don't know if they've formally released it, but I've seen it running
> and it's nice. It's also based on some heavy research to get the
> mappings right (join projects with IBM, DSTO, etc). Have a chat with
> them, and I'm sure they'll be able to help you out.
>
> Regards,
> Paul Gearon
> Fedora Commons
>
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Martin Hepp
> (UniBW)<hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org> wrote:
> > Dear all:
> > Can anyone recommend a good tool for deriving UML class diagrams from OWL
> > ontologies in a way that allows editing the final diagram?
> >
> > The plug-in for Protégé 4.0
> >
> > http://protegewiki.stanford.edu/index.php/OWL2UML
> >
> > creates only a .png file of limited quality and the online tool at
> >
> > http://owl2xmi.sourceforge.net/
> > http://swap.uib.es:8080/owl2xmi/
> >
> > exports only XMI 1.0 as far as I can see.
> >
> >
> > Thanks for any hints!
> >
> > Best
> >
> > Martin
> >
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