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Kalyanpur, Pars a, & Hendler<br />

Chapter.V<br />

A.Tool.for.Working.with.<br />

<strong>Web</strong>.Ontologies<br />

Ad tya Kalyanpur, Un vers ty <strong>of</strong> Maryland, USA<br />

B jan Pars a, Un vers ty <strong>of</strong> Maryland, USA<br />

James Hendler, Un vers ty <strong>of</strong> Maryland, USA<br />

Abstract<br />

The task <strong>of</strong> building an open and scalable ontology browsing and editing tool based<br />

on OWL, <strong>the</strong> first standardized <strong>Web</strong>-oriented ontology language, requires <strong>the</strong> rethinking<br />

<strong>of</strong> critical user interface and ontological engineering issues. In this article,<br />

we describe Swoop, a browser and editor specifically tailored to OWL ontologies.<br />

Taking a “<strong>Web</strong> view” <strong>of</strong> things has proven quite instructive, and we discuss some<br />

insights into <strong>Web</strong> ontologies that we gained through our experience with Swoop,<br />

including issues related to <strong>the</strong> display, navigation, editing, and collaborative annotation<br />

<strong>of</strong> OWL ontological data.<br />

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