Re: Alternative to CWM as a simple command-line reasoner for RDF

Tim,

As an option for your more visual learners you might want to have a look 
at Gruff.

http://allegrograph.com/gruff2/

It's a free tool with a number of different options and capabilities 
that include reasoning capabilities.   If you are exposing students to 
SPARQL (or Prolog) for the first time, Gruff can generate query code 
from a visual graph to get users started exploring.

Happy to show you a demo or we have a number of Gruff videos in our 
Learning Center.

Regards,

Craig Norvell
Franz Inc.
2201 Broadway, Suite 715
Oakland, California  94612

Office +1 (510) 452-2000 x165


On 9/28/2016 6:42 AM, Tim Finin wrote:
> When teaching about semantic web technology, I've used CWM as a simple 
> command line tool to show inferences that can be drawn from a file of 
> triples.  I've used N3 rules for RDF and RDFS and parts of OWL.  I 
> feel like there must be something more recent than CWM that will work 
> in a generic Unix environment and either has the reasoning built in or 
> can use SWRL rules.  Ideally it would also be easy for students to 
> download, install and use for exploration and experiments.  Any 
> suggestions?
>
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