Ontology Engineering Environments
Published 1 January 2009
Riichiro Mizoguchi, Kouji Kozaki
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Four environments are selected: OntoEdit, WebODE, Protege and Hozo each of which covers a wide rage of ontology development process rather than being a single-purpose tool which should be covered elsewhere.
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In this chapter we discuss trends of ontology engineering environments and their characteristics through comparison between some tools. After a summarization of the recent trends of them, the authors enumerate factors which characterize those environments. Then we take up OntoEdit, Hozo, WebODE, SWOOP and Protégé, and compare them according to the factors.
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