As there were several requests: We recompiled the VOWL plugin for
Protégé so that it also works with the older Java version 1.6 now (which
is the Java version that comes with the bundle installation of Protégé
4.3). The new JAR file (for those who got errors with the old one) is
available at: http://vowl.visualdataweb.org/protegevowl.html
Steffen
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On 12.05.2014 17:04, Steffen Lohmann wrote:
Hi all,
we are glad to announce that version 2.0 of the Visual Notation for
OWL Ontologies (VOWL) has been published a few weeks ago. Along with
the specification, we released a Protégé plugin and a web tool that
implement large parts of VOWL. The works may be of interest to those
of you who would like to visualize (smaller) ontologies in an
intuitive way. They can be tested online at:
http://vowl.visualdataweb.org
We are currently working on an improved JSON structure and additional
functionality for the web tool (WebVOWL) to allow for an easier
transformation of OWL to JSON and to provide a more compact
visualization for larger ontologies. We are also planning to integrate
further visual elements from the spec into the Protégé plugin
(ProtégéVOWL). VOWL itself will also be advanced in the future to
consider further OWL elements (particularly from OWL 2) and additional
cases.
Note that the focus of VOWL 2 is on the ontology schema (i.e. the
classes, properties and datatypes, sometimes called TBox), while the
focus of VOWL 1 was on the integrated representation of classes and
individuals (TBox and ABox) - which is, however, still possible with
VOWL 2.
On behalf of the VOWL team,
Steffen
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Steffen Lohmann . Institute for Visualization and Interactive Systems
University of Stuttgart . Universitaetstrasse 38 . D-70569 Stuttgart
Phone: +49 711 685-88438 . http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/~lohmansn
