Hi,

to sketch something (especially for end-users) lot of people is using Protege. 
It gives you an OWL perspective, but you don't need to push it far.
It's good to start sketching something.
If you go big... then directly handling triples cane be quite useful.

best,
Andrea

Il giorno 25/set/2013, alle ore 14:58, Charles Li <[email protected]> ha 
scritto:

> Hi, Ian:
> 
> Thank you very much for your reply!
> 
> We are developing a product catalog application, which keeps descriptions
> about product and product relationships attributes. This is an effort to
> build from scratch, which means that we will let a group of users to
> manually enter product information. I understand eventually we will have to
> build a GUI customized to our needs, but is there any general-purpose
> RDF/OWL tool that we can quickly leverage to start with. We are still fuzzy
> on exactly what kinds of semantic functionality we actually need, but a
> tool to help us to manually input RDF triples to a Jena datastore would be
> good.
> 
> Thank you again!
> - Charles
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 3:16 AM, Ian Dickinson <[email protected]>wrote:
> 
>> Hi Charles,
>> 
>> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 4:28 AM, Charles Li <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>> Not sure if this is the right place for this question, but please allow
>> me
>>> to try:
>> Yes, it's the right place! However ...
>> 
>>> We have a project that we are going to build the Semantic model from
>>> scratch. Eventually we are going to use Apache Jena to query and update
>> the
>>> model. What tool(s) do you recommend to build the model from scratch?
>> I'm not quite sure what you are asking. Can you please say more what
>> you intend by "building a model from scratch"? I could take a guess at
>> what that means, but it would be easier if you could expand the
>> question. Ideally, give an example of what you mean.
>> 
>> Ian
>> 

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