Re: SKOS Implementation: SKOS editor and API

Thanks Simon.

We are using the SKOS issue tracker to manage implementation  
experience, and this has been logged in the SKOS Issue tracker as  
[ISSUE-202] and [ISSUE-203].

	Sean

On 22 Apr 2009, at 10:43, Simon Jupp wrote:

> * Name of Software:
> SKOSEd and SKOS API
>
> * Person/organisation responsible:
> Simon Jupp, University of Manchester, UK.
>
> * Availability/URL:
> SKOSEd is open source and the code is available from http:// 
> code.google.com/p/skoseditor/
> SKOS API is written in Java and source code and Jars are available  
> here http://skosapi.sourceforge.net/
>
> * License:
> GNU Lesser General Public License
>
> * Can the software read SKOS data?
>
> SKOSEd and SKOS API support reading SKOS data in a variety of  
> formats including RDF/XML, Turtle, OWL/XML, OWL Functional Syntax,  
> Manchester Syntax.
> The SKOSEd plugin reads all SKOS constructs but only provides  
> internal representations for constructs that are valid OWL 2. For  
> example, SKOSEd does not support the use of lists required to  
> represent OrderedCollections.
>
> * Can the software write SKOS data?
>
> SKOSEd supports writing SKOS data in a variety of formats including  
> RDF/XML, Turtle, OWL/XML, OWL Functional Syntax, Manchester  
> Syntax.  The SKOSEd plugin allows creation of all SKOS constructs  
> that are valid OWL 2.
>
> * Can the software check consistency of SKOS data with respect to  
> the SKOS data model?
>
> SKOSEd supports checking the logical consistency of a vocabulary  
> with respect to the SKOS data model semantics.
>
> * Description:
> SKOSEd is a plugin for the OWL ontology editor Protege 4 [1]. It  
> has support for viewing, creating and editing vocabularies  
> represented in SKOS. SKOSEd extends Protege 4 to provide a suite of  
> views that are more useful and offer extended functionality to SKOS  
> users, this includes a hierarchy view that exposes the SKOS Concept  
> broader/narrower hierarchy. Other features include the ability to  
> view entailments computed by the reasoners available for Protege 4,  
> and the ability to interact with and extend the underlying OWL data  
> model for SKOS.
>
> SKOSEd is built on top of the SKOS API. The SKOS API provides an  
> abstracts Java interface for the constructs defined in the SKOS  
> data model. An implementation of these interface is provided via  
> the OWL API (http://owlapi.sourceforge.net/). This affords many  
> benefits which include:
> 	1 - Access to a wide range of parsers and renderers
> 	2 - Access and extend the underlying OWL representation of the  
> SKOS data model
> 	3 - Supports popular description logic reasoners for consistency  
> checking and computing entailments.
>
> * Publication:
> To be published - Simon Jupp, Sean Bechhofer and Robert Stevens. A  
> Flexible API and Editor for SKOS. ESWC 2009. LNCS 5554. pp 506-520,  
> 2009
>
> 1 - http://www.co-ode.org/downloads/protege-x/
>
>

--
Sean Bechhofer
School of Computer Science
University of Manchester
sean.bechhofer@manchester.ac.uk
http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/people/bechhofer

Received on Monday, 27 April 2009 09:48:16 UTC