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- Title
Drawing OWL 2 ontologies with Eddy the editor.
- Authors
Lembo, Domenico; Pantaleone, Daniele; Santarelli, Valerio; Savo, Domenico Fabio
- Abstract
In this paper we introduce Eddy, a new open-source tool for the graphical editing of OWL 2 ontologies. Eddy is specifically designed for creating ontologies in GRAPHOL, a completely visual ontology language that is equivalent to OWL 2. Thus, in Eddy ontologies are easily drawn as diagrams, rather than written as sets of formulas, as commonly happens in popular ontology design and engineering environments. This makes Eddy particularly suited for usage by people who are more familiar with diagramatic languages for conceptual modeling rather than with typical ontology formalisms, as is often required in nonacademic and industrial contexts. Eddy provides intuitive functionalities for specifying GRAPHOL diagrams, guarantees their syntactic correctness, and allows for exporting them in standard OWL 2 syntax. A user evaluation study we conducted shows that Eddy is perceived as an easy and intuitive tool for ontology specification.
- Subjects
ONTOLOGY -- Social aspects; DESCRIPTION logics; SEMANTIC Web; COMPUTER science; GRAPHOLOGY; COMPUTER graphics
- Publication
AI Communications, 2018, Vol 31, Issue 1, p97
- ISSN
0921-7126
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3233/AIC-180751