Tool to transform ontology conceptualizations made with diagrams.net into OWL code.
The conceptualizations should follow the Chowlk visual notation. Please visit the specification for more details.
Citing Chowlk: If you used Chowlk in your work, please cite the ESWC paper:
@InProceedings{10.1007/978-3-031-06981-9_20,
author="Ch{\'a}vez-Feria, Serge
and Garc{\'i}a-Castro, Ra{\'u}l
and Poveda-Villal{\'o}n, Mar{\'i}a",
editor="Groth, Paul
and Vidal, Maria-Esther
and Suchanek, Fabian
and Szekley, Pedro
and Kapanipathi, Pavan
and Pesquita, Catia
and Skaf-Molli, Hala
and Tamper, Minna",
title="Chowlk: from UML-Based Ontology Conceptualizations to OWL",
booktitle="The Semantic Web",
year="2022",
publisher="Springer International Publishing",
address="Cham",
pages="338--352"
}
You have several options to use this tool.
Go to https://chowlk.linkeddata.es/ web application.
Download the Chowlk template.
Complete version of the template: https://github.com/oeg-upm/chowlk_spec/blob/master/resources/chowlk-library-complete.xml
Lightweight version of the template: https://github.com/oeg-upm/chowlk_spec/blob/master/resources/chowlk-library-lightweight.xml
In diagrams.net go to File > Open Library from > Device ...
Select the library downloaded.
Make your conceptualization using the blocks that will appear on the side bar.
Download the diagram in xml format.
Drag and drop your diagram in the Service dropping area and download your TTL file.
The following command line will return the ontology in Turtle format.
curl -F data=@path_to_diagram/diagram.xml https://chowlk.linkeddata.es/api
where path_to_diagram can be a relative path (e.g. diagrams/diagram.xml) or an absolute path (e.g. /home/user/diagrams/diagram.xml).
The service will return the following dictionary:
{
"ttl_data": "@prefix ns: ...",
"new_namespaces": {"ns1": "https://namespace1.com#", "ns2": "https://namespace2.com#"},
"errors": {"Concepts": [{"message": "Problem in text", "shape_id": "13", "value": "ns:Building Element"}],
"Attributes": [{"message": "Problem in cardinality", "shape_id": 45, "value": "ns:ifcIdentifier"}]},
"xml_error_generated": true,
"xml_error_file": "<mxfile ...",
"warnings": {"Base": [{"message": "A base has not been declared. The first namespace has been taken as base"}]}
}
{
"message": "Some message related to the problem",
"shape_id": "An integer id that identify the problematic shape in the diagram",
"value": "the actual text related with the shape"
}
{
"message": "Some message related to the problem",
"shape_id": "An integer id that identify the problematic shape in the diagram",
"value": "the actual text related with the shape"
}
git clone https://github.com/oeg-upm/Chowlk.git
git checkout webservice
pip install -r requirements.txt
positional arguments:
diagram_path the path where the diagram is located
output_path the desired location for the generated ontology
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--xml_error_path XML_ERROR_PATH the desired location for the xml file with the marked errors found in the diagram
--type TYPE ontology or rdf data
--format FORMAT file format: ttl or xml
If the desired format is ttl:
python converter.py path/to/diagram.xml output/path/ontology.ttl --type ontology --format ttl
If the desired format is ttl and the path to the xml error is indicated:
python converter.py path/to/diagram.xml output/path/ontology.ttl --xml_error_path output/path/error_xml.xml --type ontology --format ttl
If the desired format is rdf/xml:
python converter.py path/to/diagram.xml output/path/ontology.xml --type ontology --format xml
If the desired format is rdf/xml and the path to the xml error is indicated:
python converter.py path/to/diagram.xml output/path/ontology.xml --xml_error_path output/path/error_xml.xml --type ontology --format xml
python entrypoint.py
Chávez-Feria, S., García-Castro, R., Poveda-Villalón, M. (2022). Chowlk: from UML-Based Ontology Conceptualizations to OWL. In: , et al. The Semantic Web. ESWC 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13261. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06981-9_20
Poveda-Villalón, M., Chávez-Feria, S., Carulli-Pérez, S., & García-Castro, R. (2023). Towards a UML-based notation for OWL ontologies. Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on the Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies, Linked Data and Knowledge Graphs co-located with the 22nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2023). https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3508/paper2.pdf
Chávez-Feria, S., García-Castro, R., Poveda-Villalón, M. (2021). Converting UML-based ontology conceptualizations to OWL with Chowlk. In ESWC (Poster and Demo Track)