Fwd: How to find a proper ontology for my classes and properties?

Hi,

Is VisiNav available as API or Web Service?
in order to use it in a development of a Tool

Best Regards,

Percy

2010/10/30 Andreas Harth <andreas@harth.org>

Hi,
>
> On 10/30/2010 04:40 PM, Juriy Katkov wrote:
>
>> 1. Suppose I started describing something in triples and I want to use a
>> property 'hasOwner'. I understand that it's much better to use this
>> property from one of the existing ontologies rather than use property
>> from my own namespace.
>> The question is: what is the easyest and the most right way to search
>> for this property? I know, there is Swoogle and sometimes it helps me
>> with that. I wonder if there is something better that fulltext search.
>>
>
> VisiNav has some relevant data.  First, perform a keyword search
> (e.g. "owner").  Second, restrict (via drag-and-drop) to results
> of type Property.  Voila [1].
>
> Best regards,
> Andreas.
>
> [1]
> http://visinav.deri.org/list?keyword=owner&query=%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F1999%2F02%2F22-rdf-syntax-ns%23type%3E+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F1999%2F02%2F22-rdf-syntax-ns%23Property%3E+.%0A
>
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