Welcome to OntoWare.org

The OntoWare Group provides organizational and legal support for a broad range of Semantic Web related software projects. Through a collaborative and meritocratic development process, OntoWare projects deliver enterprise-grade, freely available software products that attract large communities of users.


DNS transfer problems
     - 2008-02-26 14:51   -   OntoWare-Server
Due to unexpected problems during the dns transfer the portal was unreachable for a while.

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Hardware Problems
     - 2007-09-25 20:06   -   OntoWare-Server
OntoWare has been down these days due to hardware problem. But fortunately, it's now solved and hopefully completely fixed.

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RDF2GO 4.4 released
    Max Völkel - 2007-03-12 12:35   -   semweb4j
Get the latest RDF2Go now, an adapter for the latest OpenRDF will be supplied by Aduna soon.

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Repository moved
    Max Völkel - 2007-02-02 11:16   -   rdf2go
The RDF2GO source code repository lives now at svn+ssh://ontoware.org/svnroot/semweb4j/trunk/org/semweb4j/rdf2go.api for the API. Other parts are projects at svn+ssh://ontoware.org/svnroot/semweb4j/trunk/org/semweb4j . Browsing on the web is here: https://ontoware.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewc...

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RDF2Go 4.x underway
    Max Völkel - 2006-09-19 16:03   -   rdf2go
The new API will no longer be bound to java.net.URI but uses instead it's own marker interface. A sneak-preview on the new API can be gotten from live CVS here: https://ontoware.org/plugins/scmcvs/cvswe...

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Abstract Syntax output, LUNA tool, and more
    Denny Vrandecic - 2006-07-05 13:39   -   OWL Tools
Version 0.27 of the owl tools are finally released! You will find six months worth of bug fixes in the tools, and also a new tool, luna, that adds an axiom to state the difference of all individuals in the list; the latex tool has been greatly improved; the syntax translation tool now has also an output in abstract syntax; dlpconvert now has a RuleML output; and much much more. Works with the new version of KAON2!

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RDFReactor 3.2 - many new features
    Max Völkel - 2006-05-10 04:37   -   RDF Reactor
Just in time for the Jena User Conference we release RDFReactor 3.2. Now bundled with RDF2Go (and Jena 2.3) and jREST (both LGPL). All you need for semantic web applications in one file.

New features: Cardinality constraints, Inverse properties, more options

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One jar to rule them all
    Max Völkel - 2006-04-28 06:46   -   semweb4j
Triple stores, RDF, Servlets - tame three Semantic Web obstacles with one library. Semweb4j helps.

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Experimental SPARQL support
    Max Völkel - 2006-02-16 15:55   -   rdf2go
RDF2Go now has SPARQL support (currently only in CVS, including test cases). Currently only for Jena 2.3, Sesame support underway. Ohter triple stores on request ;-)

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SemVersion 0.9 released
    Max Völkel - 2006-02-02 08:37   -   SemVersion - RDF Versioning
New: Persistent storage, User management

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Subversion Support on Ontoware
     - 2006-01-10 07:40   -   OntoWare-Server
Ontoware now supports Subversion and offers choice between CVS and SVN to manage source code.

If you have an existing CVS repository that you would want to convert to SVN, make an appointment with us for the migration using our support tracker.

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OWL to Latex
    Denny Vrandecic - 2005-12-06 17:09   -   OWL Tools
Version 0.26 of the OWL tools have just been released! They include a brand new tool, latex, that reads an OWL ontology and creates latex processable output - import it immeadiatly to your paper!

Further improvements: dlpconvert got a few bugfixes and also an Integrity Constraints handlings system, and the shell got improved (but remains still heavily beta)

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Visual Parser Generator beta 0.1 released!
    Sebastian Gerke - 2005-12-06 17:08   -   Parser Lernen
First release of this Tool which allows you to create a parser by examples. Just start the Jar file which you can download at the Files Section of the ParserLernen project.

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RDFReactor 3.1 released!
    Max Völkel - 2005-11-10 16:59   -   RDF Reactor
Just in time for the ISWC demo/poster session we proudly present a RDFReactor 3.1. Just grab the starter pack and try it out.

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version 3 released
    Max Völkel - 2005-11-10 16:59   -   rdf2go
release of latest version with various (small) enhancements. A backport to Java 1.4 is planned and underway. Public CVS contains a Sesame-supported version for JDK 1.4 already.

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SemVersion 0.8 beta 1 released
    Max Völkel - 2005-10-20 09:59   -   SemVersion - RDF Versioning
This release is te first public beta release. It offers all versioning functionality, although not everything is completely tested. Please review the API and give us feedback for further enhancements.

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Sesame support
    Max Völkel - 2005-10-20 09:59   -   rdf2go
The latest release 3 now includes support for Sesame 1.2.2. Support for Jena 2.2, NG4J and YARS remains.

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RDFReactor 3 - developer release
    Max Völkel - 2005-10-20 09:59   -   RDF Reactor
If You dare, You can now try out the most recent version, pre-packaged as an eclipse 3.x project. Enjoy. An official release will follow soon.

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rdf2go (beta) released
    Max Völkel - 2005-10-04 15:00   -   rdf2go
The rdf abstraction library rdf2go allows developers to code now and decide on implementation later. And change.

rdf2go uses simple java types where possible and thus avoids the "Jena-Syndrom" :-)

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Reactor3 is born
    Max Völkel - 2005-10-04 15:00   -   RDF Reactor
A yet-again refactored version. Half as complicated, twice as usable.

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CVS web interface
     - 2005-08-15 21:11   -   OntoWare-Server
Project members now have the ability to browse the CVS repository through the web interface.

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New Bugfix for pre 0.7
    Martin Melullis - 2005-07-13 13:39   -   Metis - FocusedCrawler
- Fixed Bugs when using proxies, should work now
- added export of results to HTML
- various fixes

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RDFReactor 02 released
    Max Völkel - 2005-06-22 12:00   -   RDF Reactor
RDFReactor simplifies Jena Model usage, if You work a lot with instance data. It generates an object-oriented API from a RDFSchema.

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Source for Metis online
    Martin Melullis - 2005-06-22 12:00   -   Metis - FocusedCrawler
Under files the sourcecode for metis is now downloadable. Future releases will include the souce with the installers.

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ISWC submission
    Max Völkel - 2005-05-03 09:51   -   RDF Reactor
The current version of RDFReactor is described in an ISWC submissen, available at http://xam.de/2005/05/rdfreactor.pdf . T... . The new version is currently under preparation for the next release.

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OWL Export
    Jens Hartmann - 2005-03-10 18:17   -   OntoWare-Server
OntoWare.org now exports the complete portal content as validated OWL ! See it working at

https://ontoware.org/cmi/ ...

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New Release 0.6a
    Martin Melullis - 2005-03-10 17:22   -   Metis - FocusedCrawler
This new release is easier to use:
- Simpler, more logical Interface ( DataModel mustn´t be given anymore, you only have to open the ranking model)
- The ability to load and save experiments added

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CVS Statistics
     - 2005-02-07 08:33   -   OntoWare-Server
Project admins now have the ability to view CVS logs from "Project" -> "Admin" -> "CVS Statistics"

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New Ontoware Themes
     - 2005-01-16 22:49   -   OntoWare-Server
There are two new themes available. They can be found as usual in "My Page" -> "Account Maintenance" -> "Theme"

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New Release 0.4a
    Martin Melullis - 2005-01-04 12:07   -   Metis - FocusedCrawler
With this release ( https://ontoware.org/frs/download.php/32/... ) we have changed the underlying https://ontoware.org/frs/download.php/32/... to the ones used by the apache project, which should proof more flexible and stable.

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Project Logo
     - 2004-11-14 13:50   -   OntoWare-Server
Featured Projects can upload a Logo which will be displayed on the start page.

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OntoWare New Version
     - 2004-11-14 13:35   -   OntoWare-Server
The new version of OntoWare is out with a significant number of changes and improvements.
The major changes include:
- Role-based access controls: unifies all the access information for a project into roles.

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Project Home Pages
     - 2004-08-20 01:46   -   OntoWare-Server
The publishing of project home pages has been simplified. Just create needed files and upload them into your cvs repository with module named "www". They will appear in the appropriate home page directory a few hours later.

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Technical Report online
    Jens Hartmann - 2004-08-12 10:34   -   HELENOS - KDD Workbench
A technical report discussing details of artemis can be found under "documentation" of the artemis project.

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"Dynamic Namespace Management"
     - 2004-08-01 01:36   -   OntoWare-Server
OntoWare provides now more advantages with "Dynamic Namespace Management", which allows you to translate domain names from one form into another.
Project Administrators can setup this feature from - Project Name -> Admin -> Redirect Options.
Works only with "Ontology" project types.

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Ontology Projects
    Jens Hartmann - 2004-07-26 08:44   -   OntoWare-Server
OntoWare now supports classic "software projects" as well as "ontology projects" supporting the DILIGENT approach.

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ACM Classification
    Jens Hartmann - 2004-07-16 12:40   -   OntoWare-Server
OntoWare provides now a project classification based on the ACM classification (1998).

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