Chaynika Taneja and Sumit Goswami, DRDO, New Delhi.

BANGALORE, INDIA: With the Semantic web evolving as a next generation of web, developers and researchers have increasingly started using semantic web technologies like Resource Description Framework (RDF) and Web Ontology Language (OWL) for creating web documents and ontologies.

Semantic Works from Altova (Ref: Altova Inc., USA) is one useful development environment that allows developers to create, edit and visualize RDF documents and OWL ontologies visually. The user friendly GUI makes it easier to generate ontologies and since the RDF/OWL code is automatically generated, the user can concentrate on the concepts alone without going through the pain of complex code writing.

The article describes the process flow for creating an OWL Ontology in Semantic Works.

The tool may be downloaded from Altova's site (http://www.altova.com/) and installed on a PC with Windows XP or higher.

The Interface

Fig 1 shows the main interface of the tool. The console has 3 windows