- From: Martin Hepp <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org>
- Date: 2011年12月20日 21:02:37 +0100
- To: Deepak Nadig <deepak.nadig@gmail.com>
- Cc: <semantic-web@w3.org>
- Message-Id: <65B2D116-06CA-4ECD-8037-372CD23C06A7@ebusiness-unibw.org>
On Dec 16, 2011, at 6:26 PM, Deepak Nadig wrote: > > Are there any tools that can generate UML class/object diagrams from Turtle? > > Thanks, > Deepak My lessons learned from generating the UML diagram http://www.heppnetz.de/ontologies/goodrelations/v1.html#uml for the GoodRelations ontology http://purl.org/goodrelations/ for ca. three years now is that all tool-based approaches do not produce the necessary quality. I checked many tools, but not of them 1. returned a result that was easy to post-process as a vector graphic (which is essential, since you may want to fine-tune the layout of the elements for a non-trivial diagram) and 2. allowed me to exclude certain elements or axioms. Most tools already failed at providing a vector file output. The output was often ugly or confusing or both. This is way I have kept on maintaining the diagram in a graphical tool (OmniGraffle) since then, with the help of a few nested SPARQL queries that provide e.g. the properties for a given class. Best Martin -------------------------------------------------------- martin hepp e-business & web science research group universitaet der bundeswehr muenchen e-mail: hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org phone: +49-(0)89-6004-4217 fax: +49-(0)89-6004-4620 www: http://www.unibw.de/ebusiness/ (group) http://www.heppnetz.de/ (personal) skype: mfhepp twitter: mfhepp Check out GoodRelations for E-Commerce on the Web of Linked Data! ================================================================= * Project Main Page: http://purl.org/goodrelations/
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