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Populous is an generic tool for building ontologies from simple spreadsheet like templates. The Populous approach is useful when a repeating ontology design pattern emerges that need to be populated en-mass. The use of a simple interface, similar to that of a spreadsheet, means that the templates can be populated by users with little or no knowledge of ontology development. Once these templates are populated, Populous supports transforming the data into an OWL ontology using a expressive pattern language.
Spreadsheets are currently transformed into OWL/RDF using the Ontology Pre-Processing Language v2 (OPPL). OPPL 2 is a powerful scripting language for generating and manipulating OWL axioms. Populous provides a wizard like interface found in the "Tools" menu to map spreadsheet data to variables in OPPL patterns.
Populous is built on top of RightField. RightField can
