New RDF & OWL Editor from the Maker of XMLSpy
By Harry Chen on Thursday, October 6th, 2005 at 10:58 am.
Altova, the maker of popular XML editor XMLSpy, annouced the release of Altova SemanticWorks.
Altova SemanticWorksâ„¢ 2006 is the ground-breaking visual RDF/OWL editor from the creators of XMLSpy. Visually design Semantic Web instance documents, vocabularies, and ontologies then output them in either RDF/XML or N-triples formats. SemanticWorksâ„¢ 2006 makes the job easy with tabs for instances, properties, classes, etc., context-sensitive entry helpers, and automatic format checking. It is the sensible way to put the Semantic Web to work for you.
This is a good sign for the Semantic Web research and development community. It’s a sign that semantics is getting commericial attention. I remember seeing a similar pattern back in the old days when XML was a new term that not everyone knows. Altova released their XMLSpy in a time when many people are skeptical about the use of XML. Could this mean that one or two years from now, RDF & OWL will be the key languages for building smart applications? I surely hope so.
Related posts: • OWL-S Editor plug-in for Protege; • SemanticWorks 2006 still needs some work; • OWL-S development environment;
Ebiquity Blog
October 6th, 2005 at 1:21 pm
Yep, this does bode well. It’s bundled along with XMLSpy in their Professional/Enterprise packages too, so maybe that’ll arouse curiosity here and there. Coincidentally, I noticed this quote earlier:
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Semantic Web standards are going to be important. We are where XML was about four years ago. Today, people just assume XML, as they eventually will OWL and RDF.
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in the sidebar here