OntoTrack: Fast Browsing and Easy Editing of Large Ontologies

OntoTrack is a new browsing and editing "in one view" ontology authoring tool. It combines a sophisticated graphical layout with mouse enabled editing features optimized for efficient navigation and manipulation of large ontologies. The system is based on SpaceTree and implemented in Java2D. OntoTrack provides animated expansion and de-expansion of class descendants, zooming, paning and uses elaborated layout techniques like click-able miniature branches or selective detail views. At the same time OntoTrack allows for quite a number of editing features using mouse-over anchor buttons and graphical selections without switching into a special editing layout. In addition, every single editing step is synchronized with an external reasoner in order to provide instant feedback about relevant modeling consequences.

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BibTeX Entry

@InProceedings{LiNo:03,
  author = 	 {Thorsten Liebig and Olaf Noppens},
  title = 	 {{OntoTrack: Fast Browsing and Easy Editing of Large
                   Ontologies}},
  booktitle = 	 {Proceedings of The Second International Workshop on
                  Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools (EON2003),
                  located at ISWC03},
  year =	 2003,
  address =	 {Sanibel Island, USA},
  month =	 {October}
}