Fly the Mothership with SWOOP

I'm a regular user of SWOOP, a lightweight ontology editor and explorer developed by the MINDSWAP group. Today I downloaded a copy of Swoop v2.3 beta 3. After using it for few hours, I love it.

I especially like the "Fly the Mothership" feature. It allows users to view ontologies in an intuitive graph diagram. The following is a screenshot of using this feature to view OWL Time ontology and a use case of the time ontology:

Follow-up on SemanticWorks 2006 (owl:imports)

A while back I wrote a blog that reports my user experience with SemanticWorks 2006. In my blog, I claimed that the software doesn't seem to support the use of owl:imports when editing an OWL ontology.

Today an anonymous person is kindly enough to inform me that I was wrong -- see my blog's comment section. I took this person's advise and try the software again. This time I'm able to use owl:imports when editing an ontology.

The following shows I successfully defined an ontology that imports SOUPA Document ontology, and which in turn imports SOUPA Person and SOUPA Time ontologies:

Screenshot-1

The following shows the class view of all classes that are imported from different ontology documents:

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The following shows the property view of all properties that are imported from different ontology documents:

Screenshot-3

Update: after I had moved from Blogger.com to WordPress, I lost the comment from the anonymous person. For that reason, I no longer have a record of the instruction that he/she has given me. :-(