pOWL - Semantic Web Development Plattform

pOWL is a generic solution for web based OWL ontology management. It tries to be as easy-to-deploy and easy-to-use as possible. It is extremely scalable and extendable, supports strategies for collaborative, distributed development of ontologies and covers the whole ontology lifecycle.

Since PHP is by far the most distributed web development technology, the semantic web paradigm will probably be successful in a broad perspective only if applications and tools are available that tightly interact with this language. pOWL meets this requirement and also provides clean application programming interfaces for rapid semantic web application development.

A use case demonstrates the application of pOWL as foundation for a next generation Web Content Management System based on semantic web knowledge representation standards.

Example installations

For evalution by the referees of the ISCW semantic web challange we provide 3 different pOWL installations targeting different aspects of pOWL usage.
Please use "swc" as username and password for all three installations.

Large models

A pOWL installation with the largest available models in its store:

Go to the large models

Semantic Web CMS

A pOWL installation with the Semantic Web CMS ontologies loaded.
Go to the Semantic Web CMS

SWC playground

Feel free to load, import and delete models.
Go to the SWC playground

Resources

Further documentation and resources are to be found at the pOWL project website: http://powl.sourceforge.net.

Contact

pOWL Development Team
c/o Sören Auer
Universität Leipzig
Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik
Institut für Informatik (IfI)
Augustusplatz 10-11
04109 Leipzig
Phone: ++49 (341) 97-32323
Fax: ++49 (341) 97-32329
Email: auer@informatik.uni-leipzig.de