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Ontology Part 3: Sharing it

by on Sep.22, 2010, under Data Management, Online Data Sources, Software

In the last couple of posts I have been talking about ontology tools. In the meantime, I have been working a bit with Protege, getting a basic skeleton up (50 entitites/classes, similar number of instances, and a handful of object relations, and some data fields associated). Now, however, there is a point where I need to start sharing it with a group of colleagues. Not everyone in this group will be au fait with running protege and delving into the bowls of OWL files.

At first I looked at the simple exporter function, OWLDoc that will drop your ontology in plain HTML and which will probably end up being the basic option for starters. It isn’t pretty without some css work done to it at least, but it still saves you explaining aspects of new software to someone who really should be contributing their knowledge and expertise about the subject in the ontology, not become full time editors.

There is also a neater Apache Tomcat servlet, ontology-browser, which seems to work very nicely. The slight caveat there is that I don’t think we have a spare server lying around for running it on. Remote hosting could be an option, but is not ideal, given some of the nature of information that may end up in the ontology.

Finally, i stumbled across a presentation on SlideShare, talking about implementation of semantic import into Drupal. This has gotten me rather excited as I am a long time Drupal user, and like the extensibility of the system. There’s already ideas buzzing around on the potential power of combining importable ontologies directly with web-based presentation material of different instances. But I still have it to try, and it raises some similar issues in terms of server to the ontology browser – but still thought I would share the presentation here

Produce and Consume Linked Data with Drupal!

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