Editing Description Logic Ontologies with the Protégé OWL Plugin.
Holger Knublauch, Mark A. Musen, Alan L. Rector · 2004
The growing interest in the Semantic Web and the Web Ontology Language (OWL) will reveal the potential of Description Logics in industrial projects. The rich semantics of OWL provide powerful reasoning capabilities that help build, maintain and query domain models for many purposes. However, before OWL can unfold its full potential, user-friendly tools with a scalable architecture are required. We present the OWL Plugin, an extension of the Protégé ontology development environment, which can be used to define classes and properties, to edit logical class expressions, to invoke reasoners, and to link ontologies into the Semantic Web. We analyze some of the challenges for developers of Description Logic editors, and discuss some of our user interface design decisions.