Science Behind OWLGrEd

When you use OWLGrEd you take advantage of more than 25 years of research and experience in developing graphical language tools.

OWLGrEd has been presented in multiple conferences ranging from purely academic (such as the "European Semantic Web Conference") to more business oriented ("Perspectives in Business Informatics Research"). Some of the publications and posters can be downloaded below.

For the idea and original design description please refer to:

• Jānis Bārzdiņš, Guntis Bārzdiņš, Kārlis Čerāns, Renārs Liepiņš and Artūrs Sproģis,
  "UML Style Graphical Notation and Editor for OWL 2" ,
  in Perspectives in Business Informatics Research, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Volume 64, Part 2, pages 102-114, 2010

Other relevant publications:

• Kārlis Čerāns, Jūlija Ovčiņņikova, Renārs Liepiņš, Mikus Grasmanis,
  "Extensible Visualizations of Ontologies in OWLGrEd" ,
  in The Semantic Web: ESWC 2019 Satellite Events, ESWC 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11762. Springer, Cham.
• Jūlija Ovčiņņikova and Kārlis Čerāns,
  "Advanced UML Style Visualization of OWL Ontologies" ,
  in Proc. of VOILA 2016. CEUR, vol. 1704, CEUR-WS.org, 2016, pp.136-142.
• Renārs Liepiņš, Uldis Bojārs, Normunds Grūzītis, Kārlis Čerāns and Edgars Celms,
  "Towards Self-explanatory Ontology Visualization with Contextual Verbalization" ,
  in Arnicans, G., Arnicane, V., Borzovs, J., Niedrite, L. (eds.), DBIS, Springer, CCIS, Vol 615, pp.3-17 (2016).
• Kārlis Čerāns and Aiga Romāne,
  "OBIS: Ontology-Based Information System Framework" ,
  in Proc. of CAiSE FORUM 2015.
• Renārs Liepiņš, Mikus Grasmanis, and Uldis Bojārs,
  "OWLGrEd Ontology Visualizer" ,
  in ISWC-DEV, 2014.
• Kārlis Čerāns, Jūlija Ovčiņņikova, Renārs Liepiņš and Artūrs Sproģis,
  "Advanced OWL 2.0 Ontology Visualization in OWLGrEd" ,
  in Caplinskas, A., Dzemyda, G., Lupeikiene, A., Vasilecas, O. (eds.), Databases and Information Systems VII, IOS Press, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Vol 249, pp.41-54 (2013)
• Renārs Liepiņš,
  "Library for Model Querying – lQuery" ,
  in Proceedings of Workshop on OCL and Textual Modelling, 2012.
• Renārs Liepiņš, Kārlis Čerāns and Artūrs Sproģis,
  "Visualizing and editing ontology fragments with OWLGrEd" ,
  in I-SEMANTICS, 2012.
• Kārlis Čerāns, Renārs Liepiņš, Artūrs Sproģis, Jūlija Ovčiņņikova and Guntis Bārzdiņš,
  "Domain-Specific OWL Ontology Visualization with OWLGrEd" ,
  in ESWC Poster Session, 2012.
• Kārlis Čerāns, Guntis Bārzdiņš, Renārs Liepiņš, Jūlija Ovčiņņikova, Sergejs Rikačovs and Artūrs Sproģis,
  "OWLGrEd/S: a graphical schema editor for StarDog OWL/RDF-databases" ,
  in OWLED, volume 849 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings. CEUR-WS.org, 2012
• Jānis Bārzdiņš, Kārlis Čerāns, Renārs Liepiņš and Artūrs Sproģis,
  "Advancedontology visualization with OWLGrEd" ,
  in OWLED, volume 796 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings. CEUR-WS.org, 2011
• Jānis Bārzdiņš, Kārlis Čerāns, Sergejs Kozlovičs, Edgars Rencis and Andris Zariņš,
  "A Graph Diagram Engine for the Transformation-Driven Architecture" ,
  in Scientific Papers, University of Latvia, 2010, Vol. 756, pp. 139-149
• Jānis Bārzdiņš, Kārlis Čerāns, Sergejs Kozlovičs, Lelde Lāce, Renārs Liepiņš, Edgars Rencis, Artūrs Sproģis and Andris Zariņš,
  "An MDE-Based Graphical Tool Building Framework" ,
  in Scientific Papers, University of Latvia, 2010, Vol. 756, pp. 121-138
• Jānis Bārzdiņš, Guntis Bārzdiņš, Kārlis Čerāns, Renārs Liepiņš and Artūrs Sproģis,
  "OWLGrEd: a UML Style Graphical Notation and Editor for OWL 2" ,
  in OWLED 2010, OWL: Experiences and Directions, Seventh International Workshop, 2010
• Jānis Bārzdiņš, Guntis Bārzdiņš, Kārlis Čerāns, Renārs Liepiņš and Artūrs Sproģis,
  "OWLGrEd: a UML Style Graphical Editor for OWL" ,
  in Ontology Repositories and Editors for the Semantic Web, Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Ontology Repositories and Editors for the Semantic Web, 2010