Open-Source Tools for Ontology Management and Visualization

Sarra Ben Abbès · 2022-02-17T10:19:09.703Z

Hello all, if someone knows some open-source tools for managing ontologies (visualisation+ versioning, etc.) Thanks

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Wolfgang S.
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We (metaphacts) provide comprehensive tooling for Ontology Management, Authoring and Visualization with metaphactory. See this blog post for some details: https://blog.metaphacts.com/visual-ontology-modeling-for-domain-experts-and-business-users-with-metaphactory Note that this is a commercial tool you can try this for yourself with a trial: https://metaphacts.com/get-started
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Matthias S.
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Hi Sarra Ben Abbès I don't of any open source tool integrating everything but you might find some suggestion for candidate tool there: https://ontocommons.eu/node/276
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Aaron B.
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Hey Sarra Ben Abbès it may not have all the capabilities for which you're looking, but Protégé is free and open source https://protege.stanford.edu/
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Sarra Ben Abbès
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Hi Aaron B., I want to find a tool of versioning with the functionnalities of Protégé :)
Matthias S.
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On the versioning part, I recal FIBO is using GitHub with a little programm they put as commit hook so it runs just before pushing anything to the github repo making sure that whatever tool you used to develop your ontology the triples gets arrange in the same way/order.
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Borislav Iordanov
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Sarra Ben Abbès This thread caught my attention because some years ago, I led a team that developed precisely this. Last release is for Protege 4.3: https://github.com/hypergraphdb/protegeowl It’s a full OWLAPI implementation based on HyperGraphDB and a Protege plugin that allows the ontologies to be stored in a database versioned at the axiom level with git like abilities to commit/push/pull/revert etc. At the time we emailed to Protege mailing list to see if there would be interest and unfortunately there wasn’t. More recently, I’ve been looking for motivation to bring that work up to the latest iterations of OWL API and Protege because it’s still a gap, except that more and more people are realizing what an important functionality this is. If you want to use the older Protege 4.3,I’d be happy to help you set it up. Otherwise, just looking for some encouragement (and perhaps someone interested to help?) to get back to work on this.
Sarra Ben Abbès
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Hi Borislav Iordanov Thanks I will see that.

Wolfgang S.
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We (metaphacts) provide comprehensive tooling for Ontology Management, Authoring and Visualization with metaphactory. See this blog post for some details: https://blog.metaphacts.com/visual-ontology-modeling-for-domain-experts-and-business-users-with-metaphactory Note that this is a commercial tool you can try this for yourself with a trial: https://metaphacts.com/get-started
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Matthias S.
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Hi Sarra Ben Abbès I don't of any open source tool integrating everything but you might find some suggestion for candidate tool there: https://ontocommons.eu/node/276
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Aaron B.
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Hey Sarra Ben Abbès it may not have all the capabilities for which you're looking, but Protégé is free and open source https://protege.stanford.edu/
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Sarra Ben Abbès
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Hi Aaron B., I want to find a tool of versioning with the functionnalities of Protégé :)
Matthias S.
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On the versioning part, I recal FIBO is using GitHub with a little programm they put as commit hook so it runs just before pushing anything to the github repo making sure that whatever tool you used to develop your ontology the triples gets arrange in the same way/order.
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Borislav Iordanov
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Sarra Ben Abbès This thread caught my attention because some years ago, I led a team that developed precisely this. Last release is for Protege 4.3: https://github.com/hypergraphdb/protegeowl It’s a full OWLAPI implementation based on HyperGraphDB and a Protege plugin that allows the ontologies to be stored in a database versioned at the axiom level with git like abilities to commit/push/pull/revert etc. At the time we emailed to Protege mailing list to see if there would be interest and unfortunately there wasn’t. More recently, I’ve been looking for motivation to bring that work up to the latest iterations of OWL API and Protege because it’s still a gap, except that more and more people are realizing what an important functionality this is. If you want to use the older Protege 4.3,I’d be happy to help you set it up. Otherwise, just looking for some encouragement (and perhaps someone interested to help?) to get back to work on this.
Sarra Ben Abbès
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Hi Borislav Iordanov Thanks I will see that.