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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