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Cogui
Keywords: Knowledge database - Ontologies - GUI (Graphical User Interface)
Scientific Description: Cogui is a visual tool for building and verifying graphical knowledge bases (KB). Knowledge bases are represented under graphical form (close to conceptual graphs). There is a complete correspondence with the logical existential rule (or Datalog+) framework.
Functional Description: Cogui is a freeware written in Java. It allows to graphically create a KB, to handle its structure and content, and to control it. Currently, it supports Conceptual Graphs and import/export in RDFS and Datalog+. Wizards allow to analyze and check facts with respect to some constraints, as well as to query them while taking into account inferences enabled by the ontology.
Release Functional Description: Plugin-extensible architecture, multi-project management, automatic construction of a web documentation of the ontology, adoption of semantic web conventions (IRIs and namespaces), integration of some Graal functionalities (homomorphisms and OWL 2 import), improvement of the import/export between Cogui knowledge bases and Graal dlgp format.
News Of The Year: Release of a new version (V3) resulting from heavy refactoring to benefit from NetBeans plugin-extensible platform architecture and graphical libraries (total replacement of the graphical editors).
This new version requires to completely revise the user documentation, which is in progress.