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Ontology editors are applications designed to assist in the creation or manipulation of ontologies. They often express ontologies in one of many ontology languages. Some provide export to other ontology languages however.

Decision criteria for software choice

Among the most relevant criteria for choosing an ontology editor are the degree to which the editor abstracts from the actual ontology representation language used for persistence and the visual navigation possibilities within the knowledge model. Next come built-in inference engines and information extraction facilities, and the support of upper ontologies such as OWL-S, Dublin Core, etc.. Very essential point is also the support of ex/import of foreign knowledge representation languages for ontology matching.

Example editors

  • Java Ontology Editor (JOE) (1998)
  • Ontolingua (Web service offered by Stanford University)
  • Chimaera (Other web service by Stanford)
  • OntoEdit (Web service offered by the University of Karlsruhe)
  • OilEd (Java-based, downloadable, GPL, many users, from the University of Manchester)
  • Protege (Java-based, downloadable, open source, many sample ontologies, from the University of Stanford)
  • ScholOnto (net-centric representations of research)
  • WebODE (Web service offered by the Technical University of Madrid)
  • KAON (single user and server based solutions possible, open source, from IPE Karlsruhe)
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