Ontology Authoring Environment
OntoTrack
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List-based expand and contract tree-like interfaces for ontologies inherently
have substantial drawbacks concerning search and navigation speed as well as
user orientation and editing efficiency. As a consequence many ontology editors
use two functionally disjunct interfaces for either editing or browsing
ontologies. OntoTrack implements a
novel approach using one integrated view for browsing and editing optimized for
navigation and manipulation of large OWL Lite ontologies. More concrete, OntoTrack
- Provides a sophisticated
graph-based ontology layout with animated expansion and de-expansion of class
descendants, zooming, and paning.
- Uses elaborated layout techniques like
click-able miniature branches or selective detail views.
- Allows for editing
features like mouse-over anchor buttons, graphical selections or restriction
editing without switching into a special editing layout.
- Synchronizes every
single editing step with an external reasoner in order to provide instant
feedback about relevant modeling consequences.
- Implements instant search
highlighting or an overlay representation of classes and properties.
The system can be downloaded at http://www.informatik.uni-ulm.de/ki/ontotrack/
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T. Liebig, O. Noppens
OntoTrack: Combining Browsing and
Editing with Reasoning and Explaining for OWL Lite Ontologies
3rd International Semantic Web Conference
ISWC 2004
Hiroshima, Japan, November 8-11, 2004
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T. Liebig, O. Noppens
OntoTrack A New Ontology
Authoring Approach
Demo Track of the 3rd International Semantic
Web Conference ISWC 2004
Hiroshima, Japan, November 8, 2004
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T. Liebig, O. Noppens
OntoTrack: Fast Browsing
and Easy Editing of Large Ontologies
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on
Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools (EON2003), located at the
2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC
2003), Florida, USA, 2003.