OWL API
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| OWL API | |
|---|---|
| owlapi.sourceforge.net | |
| Status: | stable |
| Last release: | 2.2.0 (April 17 2008) |
| License: | LGPL |
| Affiliation: | University of Manchester |
| Web resources | |
The OWL API is a Java interface and implementation for the W3C Web Ontology Language (OWL), used to represent Semantic Web ontologies. The API is focused towards OWL DL and the upcoming OWL 2. The OWL API also offers specific bindings for the OWL DL reasoners FaCT++ and Pellet.
The OWL API includes the following components:
- An API for OWL 2 and an efficient in-memory reference implementation
- RDF/XML parser and writer
- OWL/XML parser and writer
- OWL Functional Syntax parser and writer
- Turtle parser and writer
- KRSS parser
- OBO Flat file format parser
- Support for integration with reasoners such as Pellet and FaCT++
- Support for black-box debugging
