- From: Elisa Kendall <ekendall@sandsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:50:17 -0700
- CC: hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org, semantic-web at W3C <semantic-web@w3c.org>, "semanticweb@yahoogroups.com" <semanticweb@yahoogroups.com>
Thanks Paul, Martin -- we have an add-in to IBM Rational Rose we sell that supports OWL 1 now, and are alpha testing our second generation capability for OWL 2 in No Magic's MagicDraw UML tool at present. It has been developed entirely in Eclipse (though MagicDraw is not built on Eclipse -- it has an interface to it), and uses the OWL API from the University of Manchester. We have also integrated Pellet, though we're still thinking about what it would mean to show issues Pellet finds in terms of consistency, etc. in the context of a UML diagram. All of the diagrams are editable and ODM-compliant - we attempt to keep you from "shooting yourself in the foot" through rules that augment our custom diagrams, but you can also create other kinds of UML diagrams, add stereotypes from other profiles for various purposes (/e.g/., SysML, Java, etc.), reuse the terminology you've specified in your ontology in other UML models through package imports, etc., as you would with any UML profile. We're planning to release the beta version later this summer through the MagicDraw site. Ports to other UML tools are planned, but not likely before next year. Parts of the work will also be released through the Eclipse MDT project as open source, but probably not until next year, as we are still ironing out a few bugs in the ODM 1.0 through the 1.1 revision task force at OMG, and would rather not incur the support overhead until the profiles are fairly stable. Please feel free to contact me off list, and I would be delighted to share more. Best regards, Elisa Paul Gearon 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 >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------- >> martin hepp >> e-business & web science research group >> universitaet der bundeswehr muenchen >> >> e-mail: mhepp@computer.org >> phone: +49-(0)89-6004-4217 >> fax: +49-(0)89-6004-4620 >> www: http://www.unibw.de/ebusiness/ (group) >> http://www.heppnetz.de/ (personal) >> skype: mfhepp twitter: mfhepp >> >> >> >> >> > > > >
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