Igniting the OWL 1.1 Touch Paper: The OWL API

This paper describes the design and implementation of an OWL 1.1 API, herein referred to as the OWL API . The API is designed to facilitate the manipulation of OWL 1.1 ontologies at a high level of abstraction for use by editors, reasoners and other tools. The API is based on the OWL 1.1 specification and influenced by the experience of designing and using the WonderWeb API and OWL-based applications. An overview of the basis for the design of the API is discussed along with major API functionality. The API is available from Source Forge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/owlapi