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CO-ODE
Collaborative Open Ontology Development
Environment
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Ontologies are formal methods for capturing
knowledge about domains of interest biology,
medicine, engineering, astronomy, historical
artifacts etc. They are based around
representing concepts (classes) and the
relationships between them (properties).
Ontology development and management are critical
technologies for knowledge management and
dissemination and the foundation for the Semantic
Web, and a new ontology language, OWL, has just
been approved as a standard by W3C. Existing
tools supporting ontology development and
management are primarily aimed at specialist
"knowledge engineers". The CO-ODE HyOntUse
projects aim to produce environments for users to
manage their own ontologies, plus plug-and-play
architectures for developers to build
applications using them. The teams behind OilEd
(for OWL/DLs) and Protégé (for frames) together
with AKT and Epistemics are working with users to
produce a platform offering the best of breed
for each community.

• The new environment will exploit the existing
  Protégé software architecture from Stanford
  University, providing access to an established
  community of plug-in tool builders
• CO-ODE/HyOntUse are developing plugins to build
  on the Protégé-OWL plugin from Stanford that will
  be

• Intuitive enough to be used by domain experts
  with little formal training.
• Flexible enough to support the specific needs of
  certain user communities.
• Transparent enough to provide easily-used
  debugging tools and explanations.
• Open enough to support several languages and
  development paradigms (OWL, RDF(S), DL, Frames).

Frames
Our current prototypes provide ontology
visualisation and support common tasks through
wizards.
The current prototypes and end user tools
Frames and OWL/Description Logics (DLs) have much
in common, but they are more different than they
look.
A first hybrid logicians environment has been
constructed at Stanford to test the integration
and requirements