Welcome to GrOWL Website


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Site under development  

                                            

Growl provides

  • Graphic representation for all OWL constructs and all common DL expressions
  • Advanced methods of navigation within large ontologies
  • Facilities to view separately TBox, ABox, RBox, Class Hierarchy , etc.
  • Framework for visual editing  of  OWL ontologies

TO DO:

  •   Graphic Maps and Graphic Extensions for Growl
  •   Integration with Jena
  •   Graphic Query Language- interface to RDQL and possibly others
  •   Query Interface to ontology persistent storages
  •   Semantic Markup Editor

 

 Growl is  implemented as java applet, stand alone editor and uses WonderWeb  OWL API. It runs on Sun java runtime 1.4.2 or later.

 Growl Screenshot

Growl Applet Demos  - This page Illustrate how Growl Renders various ontologies

New!   Growl  Editor  Second Alpha Release-  Link to the jar file containing the present version of Growl editor.(java-1.4.3)

GrOWL  does not work correctly on java 1.5.0, and apparently this is a problem of vm of java 1.5.0.

New! Growl  Editor   Overview-  this page  is a prototype of Growl User Guide