A tool to perform a 2-way diff of OWL ontologies.
- Java 14
In order to run OWLDiff run mvn clean install and
- for CLI:
cd owldiff-cli && mvn assembly:assemblyto create an executable JAR file intarget/owldiff-cli-<VERSION>-jar-with-dependencies.jar - for Desktop UI:
cd owldiff-standalone && mvn assembly:assemblyto create a ZIP filetarget/owldiff-standalone-<VERSION>-dist-bin.zip. Unzip it and runbin/owldiff.
- syntactic diff/merge functionality
- explanations for inferred axioms
- various visualization options - Manchester/DL syntax, classified view, plain axiom list
- fully semantic diff for EL using the CEX algorithm.
- easy Subversion integration
- is provides an axiom by axiom difference of the ontologies
- different axioms are shown in 'green', the common parts are blue (and hidden by default).
- for each axiom that is not contained in the other ontology an entailment check tests whether it can be derived from the other ontology or not.
- entailed axioms are shown in 'red'
- for inconsistent ontologies the entailment check is disabled
- if either of the ontologies is not EL, no CEX is performed
- axioms with colored background denote those that appear either in DiffR or DiffL list - they represent semantic differences between the classes the semantics of whose has changed (as described in http://www.webont.org/owled/2008dc/papers/owled2008dc_paper_12.pdf)
- the incremental algorithm for single explanation generation is used (as described in Křemen, P. - Kouba, Z.: Incremental Approach to Error Explanations in Ontologies. In Proceedings of I-KNOW `07. Graz: Graz University of Technology, 2007, p. 332-339. ISSN 0948-695X )
- imports are currently NOT resolved
- just one explanation generated for a single axiom - TODO provide the possibility to get all explanations
- usually the only sensible use is to compare ontologies with the same URI - no check is performed to find out whether the ontology/class/property/individual URI changed.
- to show the GUI without setting the input files in advance run 'java -jar owldiff.jar' (or the convenience script 'owldiff' on linux)
- to perform the diff of file/URI and file/URI run 'java -jar owldiff.jar ' (or the convenience script 'owldiff ' on linux)
- Kremen, P. & Šmíd, M. & Kouba, Z.. (2011). OWLDiff: A practical tool for comparison and merge of owl ontologies. Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Web Semantics. 229-233.
- Kremen, P. & Kouba, Z.. (2009). Incremental Approach to Error Explanations in Ontologies. Networked Knowledge - Networked Media - Integrating Knowledge Management 2009: 171-185
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