About VINE
VINE: Vocabulary Integration Environment
Alpha release of Web-based application (2009-09-01)
MMI is currently enabling the VINE functionality as a web-based application that ties in directly with other tools in the MMI Semantic Framework and the MMI Ontology Registry and Repository (ORR).
Tests!! Can you help as a tester? Please visit the tests page. Thanks!
NOTE: General documentation about the MMI Ontology Registry and Repository, and associated tools (including VINE) is currently under construction. Please visit the test page above as a way to learn about the VINE features.
What follows corresponds to the latest release of the standalone VINE application.
Please note, the standalone version is no longer maintained.
VINE standalone application version 1.4.0
Versions available at Download at SourceForge.
Please visit the tests page for version 1.4.0.
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
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.
