OwlSight Strikes Back: .50 Release
by Michael Grove
As Kendall suggested in a previous blog, I was doing some hacking on OwlSight last week, and well, for the last several weeks really. I’ve had some free time on my hands ever since we released POPS and I’ve been spending it with my new baby, and everyone’s favorite in-browser ontology viewer, OwlSight. About three weeks ago, we released a major update; the big news was that we now supported the newly released Pronto and I had recoded pretty much the entire interface using Gwt-Ext.
In the weeks since that announcement, I’ve gone on to further extend the functionality of OwlSight. The main items of interest are:
- Support for viewing annotations
- Support for Individuals
- GRDDL based ontology repository support
- Enhanced the Property view, adding domains, ranges and inverse property information
- Storage of your ontology repository in a browser cookie so its loaded each time you run OwlSight
- Improved explanation rendering
- OwlSight handles URL parameters; links to ontologies or repositories can be passed in and loaded on startup.
You can find some more details information about our ontology repository work here and there is now a very simple, and probably incomplete, OwlSight readme.
Make your own ontology repository. Link to OwlSight from your web pages, and use it to show off your favorite ontologies. Until next time, stay classy Cyberspace.
