Comments on: CmapTools for concept mapping and OWL authoring http://www.mikepadgett.com/technology/technical/cmaptools-for-concept-mapping-and-owl-authoring/ Articles, reviews, travel, design, literature and more written by Mike Padgett, an Information Designer in Brussels Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:26:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Mike Padgett http://www.mikepadgett.com/technology/technical/cmaptools-for-concept-mapping-and-owl-authoring/#comment-1036 Mike Padgett Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:08:59 +0000 http://www.mikepadgett.com/?p=251#comment-1036 Oops, I have to admit my error: the version tested for the article was indeed the <acronym title="Collaborative Ontology Editor">COE</acronym> <acronym title="Web Ontology Language">OWL</acronym> version of CmapTools, not the standard CmapTools release, and I've updated accordingly. Since I wrote this article, I have continued happily to use CmapTools, managing to achieve relatively complex results with it. However, for me it <em>really</em> comes into its own as an ontology editor. A colleague walked by the other day and, being unfamiliar with CmapTools, he asked whether it would generate object-based code like <a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/developer/rose/index.html" title="Links to an external website" rel="nofollow">Rational Rose</a>. <em>I wish</em>, I replied, but there's an idea for all you developers out there! Oops, I have to admit my error: the version tested for the article was indeed the COE OWL version of CmapTools, not the standard CmapTools release, and I’ve updated accordingly.

Since I wrote this article, I have continued happily to use CmapTools, managing to achieve relatively complex results with it. However, for me it really comes into its own as an ontology editor.

A colleague walked by the other day and, being unfamiliar with CmapTools, he asked whether it would generate object-based code like Rational Rose. I wish, I replied, but there’s an idea for all you developers out there!

]]> By: Tom Eskridge http://www.mikepadgett.com/technology/technical/cmaptools-for-concept-mapping-and-owl-authoring/#comment-280 Tom Eskridge Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:39:52 +0000 http://www.mikepadgett.com/?p=251#comment-280 Mike, I'm glad you like the CmapTools software. You might be interested to know that there is an extension of CmapTools called "COE: Collaborative Ontology Editor" that makes importing and exporting ontologies much easier. CmapTools itself will export to XML, but not to OWL. COE will read, edit, and export OWL in a graphical fashion. You can download it at http://coe.ihmc.us Tom Mike,
I’m glad you like the CmapTools software. You might be interested to know that there is an extension of CmapTools called “COE: Collaborative Ontology Editor” that makes importing and exporting ontologies much easier. CmapTools itself will export to XML, but not to OWL. COE will read, edit, and export OWL in a graphical fashion. You can download it at http://coe.ihmc.us

Tom

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