Ontology editors
If a data publishers cannot find a relevant vocabulary, or existing vocabularies are not good enough/suitable for the use case, they can make their own ontology. They can be helped by editors, such as:
This requires considerable efforts and requires some guidelines. Here are best practices:
- DontWorryBeCrappy: it's ok to do it wrong, it can improve later;
- Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies.
Protégé
Description: ontology editor (popular, pluggable).
Available at: http://protege.stanford.edu/
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NeOn Toolkit
Description: is another ontology editor with many pluggins available. It is especially suited for heavy-weight projects (e.g., multi-modular ontologies, multi-lingual, ontology integration, etc).
Available at: http://neon-toolkit.org/
Website last updated: 28 July 2014
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SWOOP
Description: is a small and simple ontology editor.
Available at: http://www.mindswap.org/2004/SWOOP/ (offline)
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Neologism
Description: is an online vocabulary editor and publishing platform.
Available at: http://neologism.deri.ie/ (offline), remake available on GitHub (including a live demo)
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Topbraid Composer
Description: is a multipurpose Semantic Web editor.
Available at: https://archive.topquadrant.com/products/topbraid-composer-install/
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Vitro
Description: is an Integrated Ontology Editor and Semantic Web Application.
Available at: http://vitro.mannlib.cornell.edu/ (offline)
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Knoodl
Description: is a community-oriented ontology and knowledge base editor.
Available at: http://www.knoodl.com/ (offline)
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Anzo for Excel
Description: will generate an initial ontology based on spreadsheet data and structure.
Available at: https://docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzo/
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OWLGrEd
Description: a graphical ontology editor for OWL.
Available at: http://owlgred.lumii.lv/
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Fluent Editor
Description: a comprehensive tool for editing and manipulating complex ontologies that uses Controlled Natural Language.
Available at: http://www.cognitum.eu/Semantics/FluentEditor/
Unique strength: instant natural language representation of OWL/SWRL boosts productivity and makes much easier to read and understand edited ontologies.
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Semantic Turkey
Description: a Knowledge Management and Acquisition Platform. OSGi-based framework plus various clients. The embedded client is a Firefox extension.
Available at: http://semanticturkey.uniroma2.it/
Unique strength: its Firefox interface allows for Semantic Annotation and/or Knowledge Acquisition (annotated text content can be used to produce new Semantic content). Support for OWL/SKOS/SKOS-XL
Possible drawback: support for OWL is limited. To version 0.10, there is no support for editing OWL Restrictions.
VocBench
Description: a Collaborative Environment for SKOS-XL Thesauri (conversion to plain SKOS is also supported)
Available at: http://vocbench.uniroma2.it/
Unique strength: Strong support for collaboration and a detailed editorial workflow
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