Snoggle: a graphical ontology mapper
Snoggle is a graphical, SWRL-based ontology mapper. It’s developed by folks at BBN Technologies. Ontology mapping is the process of aligning semantics between multiple ontologies. Many people believe that ontology mapping is an inevitable future of the Semantic Web because distinctive system ontologies need to aligned before data from different systems can be fused to achieve seamless semantic integration.
Snoggle attempts to solve the ontology mapping problem by providing a graphical user interface (similar to which of the Microsoft Visio) to guide the process of ontology vocabulary alignment. In Snoggle, user-defined mappings can be serialized into rules, which is expressed using SWRL.
Snoggle is an Open Source project with a standard BSD license. Latest source code and binaries are available for download at SemWebCentral.org.
The upcoming SOCoP meeting will feature a demonstration of the Snoggle tool. In particular, it will show how Snoggle can be used to solve ontology mapping problems in the geospatial domain.
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im curious how is this different to Dia
Comment by atomek — July 18, 2007 @ 11:59 am
We are also using SWRL for mapping ontologies - cf. http://protege.stanford.edu/conference/2007/presentations/09.03_Tu.pdf
Will be interesting to compare the SWRL mapping rules that are ultimately generated.
What is Dia?
Comment by Martin O'Connor — July 19, 2007 @ 9:16 am
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