About VINE

VINE Version 1.4.0 currently under development. 

Alpha versions are available: Download at SourceForge.

Can you help testing our new versions? Please visit the tests page.

VINE is a tool that allows users to perform fast mappings of terms across ontologies. It has the following features:

• Performs smart searches finding resources in ontologies by matching text contained in the statements where the resource is contained.
• Can search using regular expressions.
• Minimum number of clicks to perform mappings.
• Easy to plug in any arbitrary mapping framework.
• Non intrusive to imported ontologies. Mapping are stored in an external file. Ontologies containing the resources that are being mapped are not edited, even if they are localized in a local file.
• Exports the mappings in a text file. Useful for importing in Excel or a database.
• Adds metadata to any mapping allowing to assign:
  • time-stamping
  • comments
  • confidence level

Web-based Vine (pre-release)

MMI is currently working to convert the Vine tool to a web-based application that ties in directly with other tools in the MMI Semantic Framework and the MMI Ontology Registry and Repository (ORR). For more information, please join the MMI orr-users or the orr-dev mailing list or view the MMI code repository at Google Code.

Downloadable Vine

Related tools:

• voc2rdf: A Web tool that transforms a simple vocabulary into the Resource Description Framework, RDF, format.
• voc2owl (deprecated in favor of voc2rdf): allows to create ontologies automatically from ASCII files.

For questions and additional help please send messages to the VINE list.