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Isn't This Research Only?
Lots of Tools


  • (Graphical) Editors:
    • IsaViz (Xerox Research/W3C), RDFAuthor (Univ. of Bristol), Protege 2000 (Stanford Univ.), SWOOP (Univ. of Maryland), Orient (IBM)
    • IsaViz (Xerox Research/W3C), RDFAuthor (Univ. of Bristol),

      Protege 2000 (Stanford Univ.), SWOOP (Univ. of Maryland)

      Orient (IBM)

  • Programming Environments:
    • Jena (for Java, includes OWL reasoning), RDFLib (for Python), Redland (in C, with interfaces to Tcl, Java, PHP, Perl,…), SWI-Prolog, IBM’s Semantic Toolkit, …
    • Jena (for Java, includes OWL reasoning), RDFLib (for Python),

      Redland (in C, with interfaces to Tcl, Java, PHP, Perl,…),

      SWI-Prolog, IBM’s Semantic Toolkit, …

  • Triple based database systems:
    • Kowari, Tucana, Sesame
  • RDF and OWL validators:
    • http://www.w3.org/RDF/Validator/, http://owl.bbn.com/validator/
  • Ontology converter (to OWL):
    • http://www.mindswap.org/2002/owl.html
  • The list gets longer every day! You can always start with:
    • http://www.w3.org/RDF/#developers

Ivan Herman, W3C 30 (56)