JarCastingMatrix Views
Description
Several spreadsheet-style views of an ontology, including existential fillers, individual relationships and an object properties view.
Features
- Navigate by fully functioning class/property tree
- Add/remove columns to customize - show any combination of annotations/properties/features
- Comma-separate values in a list for quick editing
- Drag and drop object or data properties on the matrices to add columns
- Drag and drop classes on the matrices to add fillers, domains and ranges
- Filter annotation columns by language (to allow translation-style view)
- Filter property columns by restriction type (some or only supported)
- Full class expressions supported in editors
The plugins
Window | Tabs menu Two default tab layouts are provided:
Matrix
Property Matrix Window | Views menu All of the matrices are implemented as views so you can add them into your own custom tabs:
Class Views
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Class annotations
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Class matrix (asserted and inferred hierarchies) - previously Class Existential MAtrix
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For highly compositional ontologies a lot of time can be saved by using the Class Matrix to add multiple superclass restrictions on classes.
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Add property columns to the matrix, either by drag and drop or using the toolbar add object/data property column to matrix. - Dnd will default to some restrictions, but with the add button you can specify this.
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Some cells may already contain values. There can be several fillers in one cell. See below for the meaning of the highlighting.
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Add values by dragging classes onto the cell or edit by clicking in a cell to start a text editor.
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The column specifies the property and the restriction type.
if a cell value is
- plain - filler of a restriction in a subclass (can be edited)
- bold - filler of a restriction in an equivalent class (not affected by editing)
- (bracketed) - this means it is an inherited from an ancestor (not affected by editing)
Multiple values in cells are separated by commas and each value is a filler for a separate sub/equivalent class restriction.
Eg
p (some) q (only) SuperA ClassE --ClassA ClassB ClassC, ClassD (ClassE ClassF Then the ontology contains:
equivalentClass(ClassA, p some ClassB) actually p some ClassB may be in an intersection
subClassOf(ClassA, p some ClassC)
subClassOf(ClassA, p some ClassD)
subClassOf(SuperA, p some ClassE) shows up as inherited for all subs of SuperA
subClassOf(ClassA, q only ClassF)
Individual Views
- Class membership
- Property Assertions - previously Individual Relationships
Object Property Views
- Object property matrix
- Data Property Views
- Data property matrix
Quick Start
Translation
To aid multilingual label generation for entities, all matrix views allow filtering by language. To set up a view as below, follow these steps:
- Enable one of the matrix tabs or add a matrix view to a current tab
- Press the top left button on the menu bar Add annotation column to matrix. A dialog will appear.
- Select the annotation URI in which you will create your labels
- Select a language you will be adding labels for
- Press OK
- If you want to provide multiple translations or compare against an existing translation repeat from step 2, but select a different language
- Open up your hierarchy and select the first cell you wish to edit
- When entered, return drops to the next entity and you can start typing immediately
Author
Nick Drummond, The University of Manchester
License
LGPL
