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From: Holger Knublauch <holger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:21:37 -0800
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chandu wrote:
> Hi Rex,
>  I am sorry I wasn't clear about what I need. I have seen Protégé. But 
> its heavy and infact now I am working on to develop a web based browser 
> that works like Protégé to browse through the ontologies. I am not 
> trying to develop an editor. Only the browsing part for many users, not 
> the Knowledge experts but the Domain experts who are not comfortable 
> with heavy tools like Protégé to browse through the ontology.
> 
> I want to know if it is possible to create a browser which can accept 
> any already created and developed ontology and allow users to navigate 
> through the hierarchy levels. Or is it that browser is dependent on 
> ontology?    (01)

TopBraid Composer [1] can be used to generate HTML pages from an 
existing OWL/RDF ontology.  Example output looks like    (02)

http://www.topbraidcomposer.com/examples/travel/index.html    (03)

The generated pages also contain UML-like class diagrams that should be 
easy to understand for non-ontologists.    (04)

In the new version, the generated HTML pages can be linked with a Wiki, 
allowing users to add comments etc.    (05)

Holger    (06)

[1] http://www.topbraidcomposer.com    (07)

> 
> PS: I have to start working on a browser for an agricultural ontology.
> 
> Regards,
> Chandu
> 
> 
> On 2/16/07, *Rex Brooks* < rexb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:rexb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Chandu,
> 
>     When you use the word "any" you are asking for a
>     lot and I expect that the relative lack of
>     response may be attributed to that. However, if
>     you ask for "most" ontologies, then there are
>     several candidates, among which I would say
>     Protégé is probably one of the best.
> 
>     Regards,
>     Rex
> 
>     At 4:23 PM +0530 2/16/07, chandu wrote:
>      >Is there any generic ontology browser which can
>      >load any ontology and allow us to browse
>      >through? any project going on? Or is it that
>      >browser depends on the ontology itself and cant
>      >be independent of ontology?
>      >
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