New Ontology Tools
This morning I came across a Google+ post from Pierre-Yves Vandenbussche, one of the people behind the Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV) project. In it, Pierre-Yves details the newly added ontology tools on the LOV vocabulary pages: WebVOWL, Oops (Ontology Pitfall Scanner) and Parrot.
WebVOWL
WebVOWL is an online version of the VOWL ontology visualizer. You can add the URI of the ontology you want visualized as a query parameter, in the following way:
http://vowl.visualdataweb.org/webvowl/#iri=http://purl.org/net/po#
Oops (Ontology Pitfall Scanner)
As the name suggests, Oops is a service which checks ontologies for errors, which can be anything from minor suggestions (missing comments) to more serious design issues. The URI of the ontology you want tested can be added as a query string parameter as well:
http://oops.linkeddata.es/response.jsp?uri=http://purl.org/net/po#
Parrot
Parrot is an older, but very useful tool for generating documentation / technical report for an ontology. You can use it in various ways, and one of them is denoting your ontology as a query string parameter, just as the other tools:
http://ontorule-project.eu/parrot/parrot?&documentUri=http://purl.org/net/po#
If you have a suggestion for other new and interesting tools for ontologies, ping to me on Twitter!
