[MOBY-l] DAML/OIl editor for viewing MyGrid ontology

[Phillip Lord]

>>>>> "Simon" == Twigger, Simon <simont at mcw.edu> writes:

  Simon> After some hacking around online whilst waiting in the scenic
  Simon> Concourse B at La Guardia airport, I found a DAML/Oil editor
  Simon> that I could get to work on my Mac and that accepted the
  Simon> MyGrid ontology files:

  Simon> I tried the Protege editor which looked really nice but I
  Simon> couldnt find a way to get DAML/Oil into the app from the flat
  Simon> file, the DAML/Oil plugin is out of date and doesnt work with
  Simon> the latest version of protege
  Simon> (http://protege.stanford.edu). It looks good and has an Owl
  Simon> plugin but I dont have Owl files to play with to test it out.

OWL support for protege certainly exists. As well as the OWL plugin
you might want to look at...

http://www.co-ode.org/

which is starting to build some quite nifty support for OWL editing
into protege. 


  Simon> OilEd : http://oiled.man.ac.uk/ (java app)

  Simon> The MyGrid ontology files can be found here:

  Simon> http://cvs.mygrid.org.uk/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/mygrid/ontology-server/etc/onto
  Simon> logy/

  Simon> I used the mygrid.daml file in OilEd and its working nicely.

It would be depressing if oiled could not load mygrid.daml. It was
written with oiled, at least initially. And later it was generated
with the oiled code base. 

One thing which is worth mentioning is that the file you are looking
at has not been reasoned over. So many of the is-a links that you
might expect to see are not there; they will magically appear if you
use the reasoner. Sadly at the moment the reasoner will not run on a
mac, although we have a new version that should do. 


  >> From preliminary review, it looks like the branches of interest
  >> for the MOBY
  Simon> service ontology might be:

  Simon> top:domain_concept#1:process#1:generic_process#1

  Simon> This has things like: aligning, calculating, filtering,
  Simon> grouping, parsing, retrieving, etc. and is along the same
  Simon> lines as we have right now in MOBY, there are 17 terms in
  Simon> this brank with only aligning having any children.  I'll look
  Simon> more at this and go from there.

I think that it would be nice if we can try and keep the meanings of
the different properties in sync in so far as that is possible between
the mygrid ontology and the moby one. Ontologies are, after all, only
useful in so far as they are shared. 

Cheers

Phil