Hello Andrea, are you concerned about handling large-scale data-models, or about the insertion of individuals?
We (at the Christian Doppler Laboratory at the Technical University of Vienna) are dealing with the problem of visualizing large data models (OWL ontologies). There is a tool available (UML2OWL - Fast Transformation Tool<https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CC4QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Fuml2owl%2F&ei=8w1DUsLaEorBhAePpICACA&usg=AFQjCNELQCEN00pg2nOem6-eHJqbhvC8HQ&sig2=reG3DhoATtsy5a_tYdt9GA&bvm=bv.53077864,d.ZG4>) which allows users/developers to model data concepts in common UML class diagrams, and then transforms the concepts into OWL2. The resulting ontology is compatible with the OWLAPI, Protege, and can be loaded into Jena. Additionally, I am currently working on Model-Driven Approach (replacable Java data layer generation for Protege and Jena) , including a Web-based model editor. In addition to the (data) model editor, users will be able to enter some parts of the ontology (instances) via auto-generated forms. Would be interesting for me to hear some of your requirements. Maybe they influence/improve our future work. Best, Andreas On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Andrea Splendiani < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >> > > -- Andreas Grünwald Tel.: +43 650 77 82340
