Contents

• exff Semantic Web Papers
• exff Semantic Web Tools
• OWL Tools
• Semantic Web Links

exff Semantic Web Papers and Presentations

The Semantic Web Made Simple - a presentation by David Price introducing the Semantic Web
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Applying Semantic Web Technology to the Life Cycle Support of Complex Engineering Assets - the presentation of a paper by David Price and Rob Bodington at the 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2004)
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On Reference Data Libraries for Product Life Cycle Support - a presentation made to the NASA/ESA Product Data Exchange conference in April 2004 describing the use of OWL for PLCS RDLs
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A Brief Foray into Semantic Web Technology and STEP - a white paper describing the use of Semantic Web technology, specifically the OWL language, with STEP

The UML to OWL Mapping describes the mapping from a subset of UML into OWL that is currently implemented.

exff Semantic Web Tools

UML-to-OWL Stylesheets

For Poseidon CE

The uml2owl package reads the UML 1.4, XMI 1.2 file produced by Poseidon CE and generates an OWL XML document. The package includes other pre-requisites except for your favorite XSLT engine.

OWL Tool Links

Protégé - The Stanford Protégé ontology editor and knowledge-base editor is an Open-Source project that provides an extensible architecture for the creation of customized knowledge-based applications. Protégé-2000 now provides plug-in for editing Semantic Web ontologies in OWL. There is also a graphical plug-in for drawing OWL ontologies in Protégé.

e2ont - e2ont translates EXPRESS to OWL using the OSEXPRESS open-source, Java/ANTLR EXPRESS parser and Jena, A Semantic Web Framework for Java, an open-source project supporting OWL and other ontology languages. e2ont was developed as part of the OMPEK project - Ontologies for Modeling Process Engineering Knowledge.

Semantic Web Links and Resources

W3C - The World Wide Web Consortium

RDF - Resource Description Framework (RDF) Model and Syntax Specification

OWL Web Ontology Language Overview

XMLS Datatypes - XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes

exff - EXPRESS for Free open-source toolkit

eep - Free Eurostep EXPRESS Parser found under Products & Services

BBN Owl Validator

OWL Ontology Validator - University of Manchester and University of Karlsruhe