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OWL Wiki Forms (OWF) is a collection of projects and software utilizing the Semantic Web ontology editor Protégé and the semantic wiki platforms Semantic MediaWiki and Semantic Forms. The latest OWF project is Fresnel Forms (FForms), a Protégé plugin that generates form-based semantic wiki's for given ontologies. Core aspects of OWF and FForms approach are:

1. automatic processing of given ontologies to generate semantic browser interface specifications as Fresnel style data
2. consequent automatic processing of Fresnel style data to generate browse-and-annotate interfaces on semantic wiki's
3. A GUI editor for modifying Fresnel style specifications

Thus, OWF and FForms makes semantic wiki interface creation more efficient by generating a default interface for given ontologies. Then the human semantic wiki stylist can further tailor this interface by adding Fresnel style that specifies only the difference between the generated default and desired interface.

News

• October 29th, 2015: Presented Fresnel Forms - A Protégé Semantic Web Ontology Editor Plugin for Wiki Interface Specification at SMWCon Fall 2015 - the 12th Semantic MediaWiki Conference

• May 26th, 2015: The Bachelors Thesis project Fresnel Forms wrapped up with their final presentation. FForms is thus now officially released. Download this latest version from https://github.com/ABI-Team-30/Fresnel-Forms .

• April 20th, 2015: Release 1.99 of Fresnel Forms with new features: cardinality, ontology namespace prefixes in wiki page names and a few bug fixes.

• April 3rd, 2015: Additional instructions put on Fresnel Forms.

• March 16th, 2015: Fresnel Forms released. Fresnel Forms is a plugin for the Protégé ontology editor that helps create Fresnel-defined interfaces, and exports them as semantic wiki's.

More in the News archive.

Main content of this wiki

• Fresnel Forms
• OWF user manual: predecessor to Fresnel Forms
• Bachelors Thesis projects
• Masters Thesis research
• TouW-dag juni 2013 workshop

Pages for OWL Wiki Forms

1. OWL Wiki Forms v0.2: installation, manual
2. OWL Wiki Forms v0.1: installation, manual

OWL Wiki Forms publications

Lloyd Rutledge. From Ontology to Wiki – Generating Cascadable Default Fresnel Style from Given Ontologies for Creating Semantic Wiki Interfaces, In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Web Collaborative Spaces (SWCS2013) at the 10th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2013), Montpellier, France, May 27th, 2013.

Lloyd Rutledge and Rineke Oostenrijk. Applying and Extending Semantic Wikis for Semantic Web Courses, In: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on eLearning Approaches for the Linked Data Age (Linked Learning 2011) at the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2011), Heraklion, Greece, May 29th, 2011. (SlideShare)