Anita, There are two alternatives for
representing ontologies RDF Schema and OWL. If you plan to use an OWL reasoner then,
an OWL based ontology editor should be the right choice. This can help you: -
track
inconsistencies such as concepts are contradictions -
cycles -
equivalent
concepts -
re-organizing
polyhierarchies… There will be upfront cost however of
converting your thesauri into OWL. Using RDF Schema will be cheaper initially
as the mapping of thesauri into RDF Schema can be automated to a large extent. As far an industrial strength ontology
editor and OWL-reasoner such as Construct and Cerebra from Cerebra could be a good choice. Cheers, ---Vipul ======================================= Vipul Kashyap, Ph.D. Senior Medical Informatician Clinical Informatics R&D, Partners
HealthCare System Phone: (781)416-9254 Cell: (617)943-7120 http://www.partners.org/cird/AboutUs.asp?cBox=Staff&stAb=vik To keep up you need the right answers; to
get ahead you need the right questions ---John Browning and Spencer Reiss, Wired
6.04.95 From:
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Behalf Of deWaard, Anita (ELS) Dear all, A quick question that I was
hoping this forum might have some thoughts on: we are looking for a new
editing tool for our life science thesaurus EMTREE (proprietary, multi-facted
polyhierarchical, 260 k terms (50 k preferred, 210 k+ synonyms), > 10,000
nodes) and I am trying to convince the thesaurus department to go to an
RDF-based editor. I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on a- the best
professional-grade ontology editor to use (serious alternatives to
Protege?), and b- the best arguments to convince my
company to start using RDF, both internally and externally. Thanks for any comments! Anita de Waard Advanced Technology
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- RE: Ontology editor + why RDF? Kashyap, Vipul
- RE: Ontology editor + why RDF? Jim Hendler
- RE: Ontology editor + why RDF? Kashyap, Vipul
- RE: Ontology editor + why RDF? Jim Hendler
- RE: Ontology editor + why RDF? Kashyap, Vipul
- Re: Ontology editor + why RDF? Danny Ayers
- Re: Ontology editor + why RDF? Danny Ayers
- Re: Ontology editor + why RDF? Jim Hendler
- RE: Ontology editor + why RDF? Xiaoshu Wang
- RE: Ontology editor + why RDF? Kashyap, Vipul
- RE: Ontology editor + why RDF? Jim Hendler