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Re: [ontolog-forum] Light weight ontology editor?

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From: Doug Holmes <dholmes@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:07:34 -0700
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I guess that writing a medium sized or complex owl/rdf ontology in  
emacs would *probably* be a significant  challenge for most grad  
students...    (01)

On Oct 23, 2006, at 4:04 PM, Christopher Menzel wrote:    (02)

>> To be honest my preference of light weight ontology editors is
>> emacs (a standard ascii text editor that is found in unix/linux/mac
>> and windows under e.g. cygwin).  This
>> is based on 10 years of experience using Cyc and 2 years of
>> experience using KM.  Both of these systems have several GUI based
>> editors on top of them.
>
> Yes!  Emacs!  It slices, it dices, it changes the baby and guards the
> house!  I too tend to live in Emacs and prefer it for writing HTML,
> hacking perl, and writing papers (in LaTeX with the great auctex
> package) over anything else.  However, I do think I prefer working in
> Protege or SWOOP for writing ontologies *only* because no great elisp
> hacker has yet to come along and write an Emacs Ontology package --
> something along the lines of RefTeX for managing large bibliographies
> in Emacs.  With such a package I could well imagine Emacs being the
> most powerful environment for writing and managing ontologies.  Do
> you know of such a package, Bill?  Maybe you are working on one??
>
> As I recall, someone wrote an OWL mode for Emacs which was a good
> start for using Emacs as an OWL editor.
>
> -chris
>
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