DL-workbench
A meta-model
based platform for ontology manipulation. |
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Overview |
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It's really worth for you
to read something about Description Logics (Good presentation is here, another paper, a book) if you never did it before. Otherwise it
can be difficult to understand what does DL-workbench do. Nowadays
many ontological editors are available. However, several specific requirements
forced us to develop a new ontology edition platform which we call
DL-workbench. DL-workbench contains three main modules. First module defines
a meta-model for description of ontological formalisms. It provides an API
that allows management of ontological entities, containers of entities, reasoner connection and many other features that are
useful when one needs to use an ontological model within its project. A
second module of DL-workbench is a formalism-independent user interface for
edition of meta-model based ontologies. This module
uses the meta-model and is implemented as a plug-in to the IBM Eclipse [10]
platform. A third module defines the SHIQ description logic [7] formalism
using the meta-model. The third module provides also customization for the
user interface of the second module (such as images, literal names, etc.).
DAML+OIL [8] is used within this module as a
persistent format. DL-workbench pays much attention to the management of
complex logical equations as well as management of many ontologies within a project. DL-workbench allows
easy integration of ontological model with other data inside one standalone
or distributed application. DL-workbench can be used both as the ontological
editor and as an ontology manipulation platform integrated with other tools
and environments. This web site presents the project. |
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