awesome-ontology
Ontology toolkit
A curated list of ontology tools and resources
A curated list of ontology things
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Awesome Ontology / Ontology Editors | |||
| Eddy | 65 | almost 2 years ago | A graphical editor for the specification and visualization of ontologies in format |
| Fluent Editor | An award winning comprehensive tool for editing and manipulating complex ontologies that uses Controlled Natural Language | ||
| OntoME | Designed for any object-oriented structured data model to build, manage and align your ontology, or to simply browse through the existing ontologies. ( for issues) | ||
| OntoStudio | (formerly OntoEdit) - A most widespread commercial modeling environment for creating and maintaining ontologies | ||
| OWLGrEd | A UML Style Graphical Editor for OWL | ||
| Protégé | A free, open-source ontology editor and framework for building intelligent systems | ||
| Termboard | A very simple graphical editor to create Terms and Relations. It can use ChatGPT, Google Bard or any other chatbot. Ideal for beginners wanting to make and share quick sketches | ||
| Vitro | 97 | almost 2 years ago | A general-purpose web-based ontology and instance editor with customizable public browsing |
| VocBench | and - VocBench is a web-based, multilingual, collaborative development platform for managing OWL ontologies, SKOS(/XL) thesauri, Ontolex-lemon lexicons and generic RDF datasets. Its backend, Semantic Turkey is a RDF service platform for Knowledge Management and Acquisition | ||
| Apollo | (last updated ~2005) - A user-friendly knowledge modelling application | ||
| NeOn Toolkit | (last updated 2011) - A state-of-the-art, open source multi-platform ontology engineering environment, which provides comprehensive support for the ontology engineering life-cycle | ||
| Knoodl | (last updated ~2017) - An ontology-driven "Distributed Information Management System" (DIMS) by Revelytix, Inc | ||
| SWOOP | 33 | over 11 years ago | (last updated 2007) - An OWL Ontology browser/editor that takes the standard Web browser as the basic UI paradigm |
| TopBraid Composer | Series (archived ~2021) - A powerful Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for implementing Knowledge Graph/Linked Data services by TopQuadrant, Inc | ||
| WebODE | 3 | over 2 years ago | (discontinued in 2006) - An extensible ontology-engineering suite based on an application server |
| List of ontology editors | in Wikipedia | ||
| A List of Ontology Engineering Tools (Ontology Editors) | by the Hozo group | ||
Awesome Ontology / Ontology Utilities | |||
| LODE | Java ontology documentation generator to convert OWL ontologies into HTML human-readable pages | ||
| OAK | The Ontology Access Kit, a python library and command line tool for ontologies | ||
| obonet | 136 | about 2 years ago | Python library to convert OBO-formatted ontologies to networkx graphs |
| OnToology | 83 | over 2 years ago | Online tool to automatically generate documentation and evaluation for Ontologies hosted on GitHub |
| Ontospy | Python library and command-line interface for inspecting and visualizing RDF models | ||
| OWLTools | 109 | about 2 years ago | Java API and command-line utilities on top of the OWL API |
| pyLODE | 180 | about 2 years ago | Python ontology documentation generator inspired by LODE |
| pyontutils | 19 | almost 2 years ago | Python utilities for working with ontologies |
| ROBOT | Java library and CLI tool for working with ontologies, particularly Open Biomedical Ontologies. It also provides a bridge to Python by Py4J | ||
| WebVOWL | 743 | about 3 years ago | Web application for visualizing ontologies on the Web |
| WIDOCO | 298 | almost 2 years ago | Java tool for publishing and creating an enriched and customized documentation of ontology automatically, by following a series of steps in a GUI. Based on LODE |
| yamlpyowl | 16 | over 4 years ago | Python based YAML-to-OWL-converter |
| owl-cli | 15 | about 2 years ago | Command line tool for ontology engineering (diagram generation, read/write documents in various formats and OWL DL reasoning) |
| Tarql | Python tool to turn CSV into RDF using SPARQL syntax | ||
| VocPrez | 22 | about 2 years ago | Python tool (API and web front-end) for the read-only delivery system of SKOS vocabularies |
Awesome Ontology / Datastore | |||
| SciGraph | 220 | almost 4 years ago | Neo4j backed ontology store |
Awesome Ontology / Languages | |||
| Common Logic (CL) | A language with an abstract syntax and semantics which are given in the ISO standard | ||
| CycL | A language with a concrete syntax based on first-order predicate calculus and Lisp | ||
| OBO Format (OBOF) | A language used in the OBO Foundry with a concrete syntax and semantics which maps the language to OWL2-DL | ||
| OWL 2 Web Ontology Language | A language with and . It has a few defined (reserved) vocabulary terms (see and ). The language is compatible with RDF by . It can be extended with Description Logics (see ) | ||
| RDF (Resource Description Framework) 1.1 | A language with based on the subject-predicate-object triple and . For no vocabulary is defined in itself, it is used with RDF Schema vocabulary (see ) | ||
Awesome Ontology / Languages / RDF (Resource Description Framework) 1.1 | |||
| HDT | (2010~) | ||
| JSON-LD | (2010~) | ||
| Notation3 | (N3) (2008~) | ||
| N-Quads | (2014~) | ||
| N-Triples | (2001/2014~) | ||
| RDFa | (2004~) | ||
| RDF/XML | (2002/2004~) | ||
| TriG | (2007/2014~) | ||
| TriX | (2004~, inactive) | ||
| Turtle | ( /2014~) | ||
| RDF* | (generic extension of RDF, 2019~) | ||
Awesome Ontology / Languages | |||
| Loom | |||
| Nanotation | (2014, inactive) | ||
| Ontology language | in Wikipedia | ||
Awesome Ontology / Ontologies and Vocabularies | |||
| Lists of ontologies | in W3C Wiki - A short meta-list of lists of ontologies | ||
| BioPortal | A comprehensive repository of biomedical ontologies | ||
| KBS/Ontology Projects Worldwide | A List of 300+ ontologies and related resources, maintained by | ||
| The Linked Open Data Cloud | |||
| Linked Open Vocabularies | |||
| prefix.cc | Namespace lookup for RDF developers | ||
| BARTOC (Basel Register of Thesauri, Ontologies & Classifications) | Database of Knowledge Organization Systems and KOS related Registries, developed by the Basel University Library, Switzerland | ||
| DBpedia Archivo | Ontology archive automatically indexing OWL ontologies on the web | ||
| http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/ | in (ODP) | ||
| Ontology List | by Ying Ding | ||
| Protege Ontology Library | in Protege Wiki - Listing 100+ ontologies | ||
Awesome Ontology / Ontologies and Vocabularies / Upper-level Ontologies | |||
| BFO (Basic Formal Ontology) | A small, upper level ontology that is designed for use in supporting information retrieval, analysis and integration in scientific and other domains | ||
| DBpedia Ontology | A shallow, cross-domain ontology, which has been manually created based on the most commonly used infoboxes within Wikipedia | ||
| DOLCE (Descriptive Ontology for Linguistic and Cognitive Engineering) | A foundational ontology originally developed in WonderWeb project. ( ) | ||
| GFO (General Formal Ontology) | A top-level ontology for conceptual modeling, which is being constantly further developed by Onto-Med | ||
| gist | Semantic Arts' minimalist upper ontology for the enterprise | ||
| KYOTO 3 Top | An ontology which extends DOLCE-Lite Plus (DLP). It consists of ~50 classes | ||
| SUMO (Suggested Upper Merged Ontology) | |||
| YAMATO (Yet Another More Advanced Top-level Ontology) | |||
| UMBEL (Upper Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer) | Vocabulary (UMBEL ontology) (merged to KBpedia in 2019) - An ontology consists of ~70 classes | ||
Awesome Ontology / Ontologies and Vocabularies / Mid-level Ontologies | |||
| KYOTO 3 Middle | An ontology which consists of ~350 classes | ||
| MILO (Mid-Level Ontology) | 226 | almost 2 years ago | in |
| UMBEL (Upper Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer) | Reference Concepts (Reference Concepts ontology) | ||
Awesome Ontology / Ontologies and Vocabularies / Cross-domain Ontologies | |||
| ConceptNet | An open, multilingual knowledge graph | ||
| Cyc | ( / ) - A knowledge base which contains more than 630,000 concepts | ||
| DBpedia | A crowd-sourced community effort to extract structured content from the information created in various Wikimedia projects | ||
| KBpedia | A comprehensive knowledge structure for promoting data interoperability and knowledge-based artificial intelligence (KBAI). It combines Wikipedia, Wikidata, schema.org, DBpedia, GeoNames, OpenCyc, and UMBEL | ||
| Mosaic Knowledge Graphs | ATOMIC + ConceptNet combination by AllenAI | ||
| NELL ontology and knowledge base | An ontology developed by the Never-Ending Language Learning (NELL) project | ||
| Wikidata | A free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines. It contains more than 55,000,000 data items | ||
| WordNet | A large lexical database of English. It consists of ~117,000 synsets (groups of synonyms) | ||
| YAGO | A huge semantic knowledge base, derived from Wikipedia WordNet and GeoNames. It has knowledge of more than 10 million (10,000,000) entities | ||
| Xlore | A large-scale multilingual knowledge graph by structuring and integrating Chinese Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, French wikipedia, and Baidu Baike | ||
| Billion Triple Challenge (BTC) 2019 Dataset | A result of a large-scale RDF crawl (accepting RDF/XML, Turtle and N-Triples) conducted from 2018/12/12 until 2019/01/11 using LDspider | ||
| Freebase | (shut down in 2016) - | ||
| MindNet | (~2001?) - ... by Microsoft | ||
| SENSUS | - | ||
| Mikrokosmos | - | ||
| Open Multilingual Wordnet | A list of open wordnets in a variety of languages, all linked to the Princeton WordNet of English (PWN) | ||
| KYOTO 3 Domain | An ontology which consists of ~1900 classes | ||
Awesome Ontology / Ontologies and Vocabularies / Domain Ontologies | |||
| Digital Buildings Ontology (DBO) | 375 | almost 2 years ago | Ontology for buildings and building-installed equipment by Google |
| Gene Ontology (GO) | The world’s largest source of information on the functions of genes | ||
| Uberon | All body parts across all animals | ||
| GoodRelations | The Web vocabulary for e-commerce | ||
| Product Types Ontology | High-precision identifiers for product types based on Wikipedia | ||
| SIOC (Semantically Interlinked Online Communities) | An ontology of terms that can be used to describe online communities on the Web of Data | ||
| CIDOC CRM (Conceptual Reference Model) | An ontology for cultural heritage information, which describes the explicit and implicit concepts and relations relevant to the documentation of cultural heritage | ||
| Wine Ontology | An example used in | ||
| Food Ontology | An example used in | ||
| FoodOn | An ontology built to interoperate with the OBO Library and to represent entities which bear a "food role" | ||
| Geographical Entity Ontology | An ontology of geographical entities implemented in OWL 2 and based on Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) | ||
| CLARIAH/awesome-humanities-ontologies | 94 | over 3 years ago | A curated list of ontologies for Digital Humanities |
| Liquid-Legal-Institute/Legal-Ontologies | 95 | over 2 years ago | A list of selected resources, methods, and tools dedicated to legal data schemes and ontologies |
| rNews | An approved standard for using semantic markup to annotate news-specific metadata in HTML documents | ||
| Friend Of A Friend (FOAF) | A computer language defining a dictionary of people-related terms that can be used in structured data | ||
| vCard Ontology | An ontology for describing people and organizations. A mapping of the vCard specification (RFC6350) to RDF/OWL | ||
Awesome Ontology / Ontologies and Vocabularies / Vocabularies | |||
| Dublin Core Metadata Element Set | A vocabulary of fifteen properties for use in resource description | ||
| DCMI Metadata Terms | An extension of the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set | ||
| IMI (Infrastructure for Multilayer Interoperability) Core Vocabulary | A Japanese controlled vocabulary consists of roughly 60 class concepts, 250 property concepts and words associated to them | ||
| Open Graph protocol | - | ||
| RDF Schema (RDFS) 1.1 | A data-modelling RDF vocabulary used for defining RDF vocabularies | ||
| Schema.org Schemas | - | ||
| SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System) | An RDF vocabulary for representing semi-formal knowledge organization systems (KOSs), such as thesauri, taxonomies, classification schemes and subject heading lists | ||
Awesome Ontology / Alignment & Matching | |||
| AgreementMakerLight (AML) | 60 | about 2 years ago | Ontology matching system developed by LASIGE (FCUL, Portugal) in collaboration with the ADVIS Lab (UIC, USA) |
| LogMap | 124 | almost 2 years ago | Highly scalable ontology matching system with "built-in" reasoning and inconsistency repair capabilities |
| OntoEMMA | 67 | almost 4 years ago | Ontology matcher by AllenAI |
| Ontology Matching | website - Hosting OM (International Workshop on Ontology Matching) and OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) | ||
| Alignment API | Ontology Alignment API specification. (implemented in Java) | ||
Awesome Ontology / Logics | |||
| Description Logics (DLs) | - | ||
| F-Logic | family - | ||
| Description Logic Complexity Navigator | by Evgeny Zolin | ||
Awesome Ontology / Reasoners | |||
| CEL | A lightweight Description Logic (EL+) reasoner for large-scale biomedical ontologies. (Common Lisp+Java) | ||
| ELK | 95 | about 2 years ago | An ontology reasoner that aims to support the OWL 2 EL profile. (Java) |
| EYE | 127 | almost 2 years ago | A reasoning engine which performs semibackward chaining and supports Euler paths. (Prolog) |
| FaCT++ | The new generation of the well-known OWL-DL reasoner which uses optimised tableaux algorithms. (C++) | ||
| Flora-2 (Ergo Lite) | A F-logic based reasoning system. (Prolog) | ||
| HyLAR | 61 | over 3 years ago | A rule-based incremental reasoner for the Web. (JavaScript) |
| jcel | 14 | almost 2 years ago | A reasoner for the description logic EL+. (Java) |
| Openllet | 101 | almost 2 years ago | An OWL DL reasoner build on top of Pellet 2. (Java) |
| OWL-RL | 145 | almost 2 years ago | A simple implementation of the OWL2 RL Profile, as well as a basic RDFS inference, on top of RDFLib. (Python) |
| pyfactxx | 23 | about 2 years ago | Python bindings for upgraded FaCT reasoner and RDFLib integration. (Python/C++) |
| Racer | A knowledge representation system that implements a highly optimized tableau calculus for the description logic SRIQ(D). (Common Lisp+Java) | ||
| Whelk | 24 | almost 2 years ago | A Scala OWL reasoner based on the algorithm implemented in ELK, using immutable data structures |
| cwm | (last updated 2005) - A forward chaining RDF reasoner. (Python) | ||
| HermiT | (last updated ~2013) - The first publicly-available OWL reasoner based on a novel “hypertableau” calculus which provides much more efficient reasoning than any previously-known algorithm. (Java) | ||
| Hoolet | (last updated 2004) - An implementation of an OWL-DL reasoner that uses a first order prover. It uses the Vampire prover for reasoning purposes. Other reasoners could also be used; communication with the reasoner is via the TPTP format which is understood by a number of theorem provers | ||
| KAON2 | reasoner (last updated 2008) - A DL reasoner for the SHIQ(D) subset of OWL-DL, based on novel algorithms which reduce a SHIQ(D) knowledge base to a disjunctive datalog program. (proprietary, Java) | ||
| Pellet 2 | 312 | over 9 years ago | (last updated ~2015) - An open source OWL DL reasoner for Java. Pellet 3 (proprietary) is embedded in the platform. (Java) |
| How does a reasoner work? | An introductory article by Uli Sattler, Robert Stevens, and Phillip Lord | ||
Awesome Ontology / Querying | |||
| DL Query (class expression) | A query language supported by the DL Query tab plugin for Protégé based on the Manchester OWL syntax | ||
| SPARQL 1.1 | A set of specifications that provide languages and protocols to query and manipulate RDF graph content on the Web or in an RDF store | ||
Awesome Ontology / Querying / SPARQL 1.1 | |||
| SPARQL-DL | A substantial subset of SPARQL that can be covered by the standard reasoning services OWL-DL reasoners provide. It is implemented in the Pellet reasoner | ||
| SPARQL-OWL algorithm | A sound and complete algorithm for answering SPARQL-OWL, SPARQL queries under the OWL 2 Direct Semantics entailment regime | ||
| SPARQL* | An RDF*-aware extension of the RDF query language SPARQL | ||
Awesome Ontology / Querying | |||
| [protege-user] which is the best query language for owl ontologies? | |||
Awesome Ontology / Rule and Schema Definition | |||
| LinkML | A polymorphic semantic modeling language | ||
| SHACL (Shapes Constraint Language) | |||
| ShEx (Shape Expressions) | |||
| SWRL (Semantic Web Rule Language) | A rule markup language which extends the logical expressivity of the OWL language | ||
| SPIN (SPARQL Inferencing Notation) | (virtually succeeded by SHACL, see ) | ||
Awesome Ontology / Programming / OWL-aware libraries | |||
| Apache Jena Ontology API | (Java) | ||
| FunOWL | 50 | about 3 years ago | A Python library for working with OWL (functional syntax). (Python) |
| Horned OWL | 70 | almost 2 years ago | An OWL Rust library. (Rust) |
| ontor | 31 | over 3 years ago | Ontology editing library built on Owlready2. (Python) |
| OWL API | A Java API for creating, manipulating and serializing OWL Ontologies. (Java) | ||
| Owlish | 15 | about 3 years ago | A Rust library for working with OWL 2 ontologies with Wasm support and turtle parsing. (Rust) |
| Owlready2 | A module for ontology-oriented programming in Python. (Python) | ||
| Tawny-OWL | 255 | almost 2 years ago | A domain-specific language and library for OWL ontologies in Clojure. (Clojure) |
| OPPL | An abstract formalism that allows for manipulating ontologies written in OWL | ||
Awesome Ontology / Communities | |||
| Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative | (OAEI) | ||
| Association for Ontology Design & Patterns | (ODPA) | ||
Awesome Ontology / Related | |||
| semantalytics/awesome-semantic-web | 1,433 | almost 2 years ago | A curated list of various semantic web and linked data resources |
| jbenner-radham/awesome-semantic-web | 57 | about 4 years ago | A curated list of various semantic web and linked data resources |
| totogo/awesome-knowledge-graph | 1,472 | almost 2 years ago | A curated list of Knowledge Graph related learning materials, databases, tools and other resources |
| Materials-Data-Science-and-Informatics/awesome-fair-data | 28 | about 3 years ago | A curated list of awesome stuff around the FAIR principles for (scientific) data, i.e that data is findable, accessable, interoperable and re-usable |
| pysemtec/semantic-python-overview | 504 | almost 3 years ago | A (subjective) overview of projects which are related both to python and semantic technologies (RDF, OWL, Reasoning, ...) |
| buaaliuming/Awesome-Knowledge-Bases | 4 | over 7 years ago | Available knowledge bases, Ontology, Knowledge Graph or taxonomy |
| costezki/awesome-semantic-tools | 14 | almost 7 years ago | List of projects related to Ontology engineering and Semantic Web technologies that make a geek smile for they exist |
| KMax/awesome-semantic-web-business | 18 | over 6 years ago | A curated list of awesome resources that feature usages of Semantic Web technologies in business cases (applications) |
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