In my honest opinion, a text editor like sublime or XML editor like Oxygen plus sticking to the basics - defining only Classes, Properties with a range or two to related them, plus using the online validation tools available is a good way to get started on a new ontology.
As your ontology grows beyond the bare minimums, http://protege.stanford.edu/ will become more appealing - if you are editing someone else's super ontology, start there. Alternatively, if you stick to the text editor approach, you can move away from RDF/XML as a basis, for something like Turtle. Turtle will allow you to concisely express statements in a way that is "human language" enough. On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Mike Liebhold <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > A colleague and I are beginning a project to investigate the roles of > Internets of Things in Smart Cities. We are finding pretty decent > ontologies in both domains, and want to create some hybrid > representations.Neither of us are deeply skilled in SemWeb data structures, > but are looking fro some simple tools to get started editing existing > structures. My colleague (Scott Minneman cc'd here) is asking if anyone > here recommend a good, basic OWL editor/viewer or other related simple > tools to get started? > > Many thanks, in advance. for any pointers. > > Mike > > Michael Liebhold > Senior Researcher, Distinguished Fellow > Institute for the Future > @mikeliebhold @iftf > > > > >
