Easy OWL Drawing with the Graphol Visual Ontology Language
GRAPHOL is a visual language designed to help non experts to understand and specify ontologies. Our language builds on the Entity Relationship model, but has a formal semantics and higher expressiveness. Notably, OWL 2 can be completely encoded in GRAPHOL. Thanks to the novel open source Eddy ontology editor, designers can easily draw GRAPHOL diagrams corresponding to OWL ontologies and export them into standard OWL 2 format. Both GRAPHOL and Eddy have been used in several successful industrial projects and are currently under active development. This paper reports on our more recent progresses.
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