DOE - The Differential Ontology Editor
- 2008/05/22: DOE Tool Version 2.0 released.
- You can download it on the download page.
- This release has been developped by Nadia Nadah and includes the following changes:
- Change default namespace from ina to doe
- New Comment field in the lexicalization panel
- HTML export
- True multilinguism with multiple labels and comments in different languages for each concept and property
- Warning: The latest version seems to be unstable on some Windows version. In this case,
please, download the version 1.51
- 2003/11/04: DOE Tool Version 1.51 released.
- 2003/08/05: DOE Tool Version 1.5 released
- This version includes the support of the Ontology Web Language
(OWL) that is, can import OWL ontologies encoded in the RDF/XML exchange syntax and export OWL ontologies both in
the RDF/XML exchange syntax and the XML presentation syntax
- RDFS import
- RDFS, OIL and DAML+OIL (March 2001) export
- Add instances in the knowledge model of the referential ontology
- Better check of the consistency of the propagation of domain specifications along the relation hierarchy
- Few minor bugs fixed
- 2003/04/30: Ontologies Repository: you can
browse the ontologies repository here.
- 2002/03/27: DOE Tool Version 1.0.
DOE is a simple ontology editor which allows the user to build ontologies according to the methodology
proposed by Bruno Bachimont. The specification process is divided in 3 steps. In the 1st step, the user
is invited to build taxonomies of concepts and relations, explicitly justifying the position of each item (notion)
in the hierarchy. For each notion, the user builds a definition following 4 principles which come from the
Differential Semantics theory. Hence, the user has to explicit why a notion is similar but more specific
than its parent (2 principles), and why this notion is similar but different from its siblings (2 others
principles). The user can also add synonyms and encyclopedic definition in a few languages for all notions.
In a 2nd step, the two taxonomies are considered from an extensional semantics point of view. The user can augment
them with new entities (defined) or add constraints onto the domains of the relations. Finally, in a 3rd step,
the ontology can be translated into a knowledge representation language, which allows to use it in an appropriate
ontology-based system or to import it into another ontology-building tool to specify it further:
DOE is not intended as a full ontology development environment: it will not actively support many
activities that are involved traditionally in ontology construction, such as advanced formal specification
dealt with by tools like Protégé 2000. It is rather a complement
of others editors, offering linguistics-inspired techniques which attach a lexical definition to the concepts
and relations used, and justify their hierarchies from a theoretical, human-understandable point of view.
Relevant bibliographic references
- Isaac A., Troncy R. and Malaisé V. - Using XSLT for Interoperability: DOE and the Travelling Domain Experiment.
In the 2nd International Workshop on Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools, EON'2003, Sanibel Island, Florida, October, 20th 2003. Paper, Slides
- Bachimont B., Isaac A. and Troncy R. - Semantic Commitment for Designing Ontologies: A Proposal.
In Asuncion Gomez-Pérez and V. Richard Benjamins, editors, 13th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW'2002, volume LNAI 2473, pages 114-121, Sigüenza, Spain, October, 1-4 2002. Springer
Verlag. Paper, Slides
- Troncy R and Isaac A. - Semantic Commitment for Designing Ontologies: A Tool Proposal. Poster Session at: 1st International Conference on the Semantic Web, ISWC'2002, Sardinia, Italia, June, 9-12
2002. Poster
- Troncy R. and Isaac A. - DOE : une mise en oeuvre d'une méthode de structuration différentielle pour les ontologies.
In 13ièmes Journées Francophones d'Ingénierie des Connaissances, IC'2002, 28-30 May 2002, Rouen, France. Paper, Slides
- Bachimont B. - Engagement sémantique et engagement ontologique : conception et réalisation d'ontologies en ingénierie des connaissances. In Ingénierie des Connaissances : Evolutions récentes et nouveaux défis, Eyrolles, 2000.
- Bachimont B. - Herméneutique matérielle et Artéfacture : des machines qui pensent aux machines qui donnent à penser. PhD Thesis, Ecole Polytechnique, 1996.
- DOE: The version 1.51 of November 2003, is now available on the download page. For preview, you can find screenshots of the editor here
- Reference DTD: DOE DTD contains mainly the reference to the DOE language. For examples of documents written following this DTD, just have a look at the various use cases
A few case studies are currently under project:
http://homepages.cwi.nl/~troncy/DOE/
Feel free to comment to Raphaël Troncy, Last modified: Tue Jun 24 2008