OntoSTUDIO® as a Ontology Engineering Environment

The development and operation of semantic applications often involves a number of different technologies such as reasoning, text mining and ontology learning. Infrastructures supporting knowledge engineers and users need to provide the requested capabilities in an integrated but flexible way. Also required are basic functionalities such as the storage and management of semantic data and metadata. After a brief survey of current ontology engineering environments, the OntoStudio extensible environment is described. 5.